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  • I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.

  • Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

    Wish   Cows   Sacred  
  • The only sacred cow is an organisation should be its basic philosophy of doing business.

  • ...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My own belief is that education must be subversive if it is to be meaningful. By this I mean that it must challenge all the things we take for granted, examine all accepted assumptions, tamper with every sacred cow, and instill a desire to question and doubt. Without this the mere instruction to memorise data is empty. The attempt to enforce conventional mediocrity on the young is criminal.

  • She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.

    Eye   Looks   Might  
    Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.256, Anchor
  • I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I not only eat her sacred cows but I eat them with ketchup. While I take her point, I think that transgressive monstrosity and tampering with the life force are both a lot more fun than she suspected.

  • Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

    Funny   Dope   Political  
    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
  • Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.

    Cows   Sacred   Poor  
    Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co
  • Red cattle," Annabeth said. "The cattle of the sun." "What?" I [Percy] asked. "They're sacred to Apollo." "Holy cows?

    Cows   Red   Sun  
  • Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

    Political   Cows   Sacred  
    John Enoch Powell (1972). “Still to Decide”, B. T. Batsford Limited
  • The velocity of light occupies an extraordinary place in modern physics. It is lèse-majesté to make any criticism of the velocity of light. It is a sacred cow within a sacred cow, and it is just about the Absolutest Absolute in the history of human thought.

  • In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.

  • Self-deceit—It’s in the “Nine Satanic Statements” but deserves to be repeated here. Another cardinal sin. We must not pay homage to any of the sacred cows presented to us, including the roles we are expected to play ourselves. The only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it’s fun, and with awareness. But then, it’s not self-deceit!

    Fun   Self   Play  
  • I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows- slow, dumb, and bright red.

    Dumb   Apollo   Cows  
  • Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

    Knowledge   Milk   Cows  
  • For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

    Life   Years   Bulls  
  • You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

    Tikkun magazine, July-August 1989.
  • I'm saying that the leaders of the church have locked the sacred cow called science in the stable and they won't let anybody enter; they should open it immediately so that we can milk that cow in the name of humanity and thus find the truth.

    Science   Names   Leader  
  • So, this is my plea to all Western editors and producers: Display the Muhammad cartoon daily, until the Islamists become accustomed to the fact that we turn sacred cows into hamburger.

    "A Muhammad cartoon a day" by Daniel Pipes, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.
  • Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to the task of making it one, so they can be sacred cowherds.

  • Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

    Funny   Witty   Humorous  
    Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.30, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Man is naturally a religious being. His heart instinctively seeks for God whether he reverences the sacred cow or prays to the sun or moon; whether he kneels before wood and stone images, or prays in secret to his Heavenly Father, he is satisfying an inborn urge.

    Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”
  • Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.

  • You lose that sacred-cow status when you lose three straight years.

    Years   Three   Cows  
  • Go your own way. Question everything. Accept nothing. Accept no dogma, no cant. There are too many people walking around thinking they're sacred cows, and they're only half right.

  • Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows and the cyclists. So for the first time the sacred cow in India, which used to be such a wonderful speed-breaker, is now seen as a nuisance. For the first time, I’ve seen cows being hit and hurt. These guys just go right past, and if the cow is sitting on the road, they don’t care. We can’t afford to have a sacred car rather than a sacred cow.

    Hurt   Past   Car  
    Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.
  • When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language.

    "Live from the Melbourne Writers Festival". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. August 27, 2009.
  • Okay," I said. "Just a normal afternoon and two normal people." She nodded. "And so...hypothetically, if these to people likes each other, what would it take to get the stupid guy to kiss the girl, huh?" "Oh..." I felt like one of Apollo's sacred cows-slow, dumb, and bright red. "Um.

    Girl   Stupid   Kissing  
    Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.262, Penguin UK
  • Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

    Robert George Reisner, Lorraine Wechsler (1974). “Encyclopedia of Graffiti”, MacMillan Publishing Company
  • Irreverence is our only sacred cow.

    Paul Krassner (2011). “One Hand Jerking: Reports From an Investigative Journalist”, p.22, Seven Stories Press
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