A Quote by Wendell Berry

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

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Wendell Berry
American - Novelist
Born: August 5, 1934

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

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

Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.

Larry Craig

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

Adrian Cronauer

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.

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

Desecration is the smile on my face.

Anthony Kiedis

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

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

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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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

The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest "functionaire" possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose desecration it depends whether and how I am allowed to live or to work.

Friedrich August von Hayek

We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.

Franz Wright

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