Against Profanity Quotes & Sayings

In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise 1 in the primer of minor poetry. — G.K. Chesterton

I'm not against profanity. It's an important part of the language when used properly. — Robert Klein

Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior. — Bill Cosby