A Quote by Wendell Berry

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
American - Novelist
Born: August 5, 1934

There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.

Wendell Berry

We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

Wendell Berry

Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.

Adolf Hitler

Desecration is the smile on my face.

Anthony Kiedis

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")

Wendell Berry

I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration.

Gwendolyn Brooks

... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars to escape writing of the worst thing of all-- not the crimes of other, not even our own death, but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves?

Adrienne Rich

Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.

Larry Craig

Punishing desecration of the flag dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered.

William J. Brennan

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

The way to freedom is through service to others. The way to happiness is through meditation and being in tune with God... break the barriers of your ego, shed selfishness, free yourself from the consciousness of the body, forget yourself, do away with this prison house of incarnations, melt your heart in all, be one with creation.

Paramahansa Yogananda

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

Mario Cuomo

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

Atom Egoyan

Socialists do not merely want a welfare state, they absolutely must have one. They must have a grovelling dependent class from which to obtain their daily opiate: an hallucinogenic euphoria which comes from the delusion of being superior to and more altruistic than all others. They must have 'the poor, huddled masses' in much the same manner as vampires must have the blood of their victims.

Edward Britton

The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

Karl Marx

Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.

Kenny Marchant

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