Top 20 Blasphemy Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Blasphemy Quotes from famous people such as Franklin Graham, Dan Savage, Annie Besant, Matt de la Pena, George Bernard Shaw, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The God of Islam is not the same God of the Judaeo-Chri

The God of Islam is not the same God of the Judaeo-Christian faith. The God that we worship in Christianity is a God that has a Son. To Islam, that is blasphemy, to say that God has a son. Therefore, they do not worship the God that we worship.
Franklin Graham
One man’s blasphemy doesn’t override other people’s free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.
Dan Savage
This Old Testament – containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality – is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy – if there were anyone to be blasphemed – blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.
Annie Besant
I’m ashamed to admit this, but I didn’t read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I’m an author now. Books and words are my world.
Matt de la Pena
Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy to say so, he and his ‘Lamentations’ are really not worth reading.
Annie Besant
In 1986, Pakistan got the blasphemy law. So, while we had just two cases of blasphemy before that year, now we have thousands. It shows that one should be careful while bringing religion into legislation, because the law itself can become an instrument of persecution.
Asma Jahangir
To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn’t believe that.
David Attenborough
In America… it’s not divided, but with Trump now, it’s like you are asking for trouble. We wouldn’t dare to say any of the things he is saying in our country and get away with it. It’s just… blasphemy.
Mo Farah
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
Pope Francis
I am actually quite relieved that I didn’t have to stand beside Imran Khan while he touted blasphemy laws, and his party targeted minorities. I wouldn’t want to justify the indefensible.
Reham Khan
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It’s blasphemy.
Jonathan Kozol
Every fair-minded person holding a position of authority must support the few who have stood up against the injustice being perpetrated in the name of blasphemy.
Asma Jahangir
The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
Salman Rushdie
‘Preacher’ – what it’s saying is not just blasphemy and good, fun violence. It’s asking, ‘Where is God?’ If he is there, what’s he doing?
Joe Gilgun
We have no blasphemy laws these days but with that freedom comes the responsibility which should always attend the exercise of free speech: truth, courtesy and an awareness of impact. It is the last of these which is so neglected by so much modern comedy.
Ann Widdecombe
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
Thomas Paine
I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.
Rick Moody
Some people probably think me telling Godard’s story is blasphemy. My friends were worried. But he’s not my hero or my god. Godard is like the leader of a sect, and I’m an agnostic.
Michel Hazanavicius