Irreverence

Mark Twain Writer, Humorist

"A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty."

Frank Herbert Science Fiction Writer

"Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe."

D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet

"If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab"

Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

"Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and consciousblasphemy or irreverence; but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?"