Scandalous Quotes

• Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lying, Stupid, Fire

  Orson Scott Card (1996). “Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.349, Macmillan

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• Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such things in seriousness, shows the greatest contempt of mankind, and the most scandalous lying impunity.

  Pierre Bayle

  Stars, Lying, Miscarriage

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• One day you're there and then all of a sudden, there's less of you. And you wonder where that part went. If it's living somewhere outside of you. And you keep thinking maybe you'll get it back. And then you realize it's just gone.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Thinking, Mad Men, One Day

  "Mad Men: Meditations in an Emergency". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• I don't want to open my mouth or speak anymore, because everything I say becomes scandalous. It wears you out.

  Megan Fox

  Mouths, Want, Speak

  Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 22, 2010.

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• Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.

  Judah Smith

  Jesus, Care, Scandal

  Judah Smith (2014). “Jesus Is Student Edition: Discovering Who He Is Changes Who You Are”, p.38, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• As soon as people realize that the majority of people in this country take drugs then the better off we'll all be. It's not like a scandalous sensation or anything like that... drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.

  Noel Gallagher

  Country, Morning, People

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• Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us to break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed, scandalous social inequalities. Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Biblical, Voice

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• God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need.

  Shane Claiborne

  People, Community, Stuff

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.

  Helmut Newton

  Portraits

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• I interviewed Matt [Stone] and Trey [Parker], actually, and I got to ask them questions. I love them deeply because they appeared dressed as J-Lo and someone else [who had worn the same scandalous dresses the year before at the Oscars]. They confessed they were on acid.

  Eric Idle

  Years, Dresses, Stones

  Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

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• I'm not scandalous. I think it's actually embarrassing to be in those, yet some people will do anything to be in those magazines. I'm happy with who I am, and I'm happy with the way people portray me. If it's too normal, then that's their opinion.

  Hilary Duff

  Life Lesson, Thinking, Who I Am

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Poverty, Dignity, Gods Will

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”

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• THE LUXE IS . . . Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups. This is Manhattan in 1899.

  Anna Godbersen

  Girl, Lying, Party

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “The Luxe”, Harper Collins

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• The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible.

  Alice Miller

  Childhood, Wish, Trying

  Alice Miller (1991). “Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth”, Penguin Press HC, The

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• As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous is when clubs accept fools.

  Sepp Blatter

  Football, Long, Upset

  "Sepp Blatter interview: The FIFA president on Qatar, Brazil and billionaire owners". Interview with Philippe Auclair, www.mirror.co.uk. September 22, 2013.

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• I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Design, Way, Strange

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• The grace of God is dangerous. It's lavish, excessive, outrageous, and scandalous. God's grace is ridiculously inclusive. Apparently God doesn't care who He loves. He is not very careful about the people He calls His friends or the people He calls His church.

  Mike Yaconelli

  People, Grace, Church

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• False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Errors, Vanity

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• An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is official, public, or national, what everyone else feels comfortable with, so the moment he opens his mouth, an artist is engaged, because opening his mouth is always scandalous.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Artist, Passionate, Mouths

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• The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.

  Friedrich Engels

  Air, Cities, Way

  Friedrich Engels (1958). “The condition of the working class in England”

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• David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.

  Gordon Brown

  School, Doctors, Views

  "Brown goes to war over Oxford elite" by Alexandra Frean, John O'Leary and Philip Webster, The Times, May 26, 2000.

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• People think because I'm shaped this way, I'm scandalous

  Jennifer Lopez

  Inspiration, Thinking, People

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• Unfortunately, catastrophes or scandalous disclosures always have to happen before humanity realises that it is only its own mistakes that have led it into misfortune. These are all the more difficult to rectify, because in the main they have been made by the authorities, who will not commit suicide themselves, but in order to save their own skins, they would rather that all Life should perish before they acknowledge their errors.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Suicide, Mistake, Errors

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Fertile Earth – Nature's Energies in Agriculture, Soil Fertilisation and Forestry: Volume 3 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.108, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would be comprehensible like the deeds and gestures of monarchs recorded day after day in official communiques. Six months of a life cannot catalogue the vitality, the activity of an individual; only death stops development and then, what is important is the overall meaning of a life, not the details of that life, edifying to some, scandalous to others.

  Louis Aragon

  Important, Vitality, Rebel

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• What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I can just be very candid with you. It means to have a certain kind of temperament, to make certain kinds of political and ethical choices, and to exercise certain analytical focuses in targeting on the catastrophic and the monstrous, the scandalous, the traumatic, that are often hidden and concealed in the deodorized and manicured discourses of the mainstream. That's what it means to be a leftist. So let's just be clear about it.

  Cornel West

  Mean, Exercise, Talking

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