It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.
— Lewis Grizzard
Astonishing Scandalous quotations
If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed .
.. In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.
The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery.
I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.
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.
Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.
Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.
We have never seen health as a right.
It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state.
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not.
Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.
I've seen too many celebrities fall from their morals, and I wanna come up under that and be THAT girl that doesn't need a scandal to make herself look better.
The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal.
His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Lahm is a scandal. He is super-intelligent, understands the game brilliantly, knows when to come inside or to stay wide. The guy is f****** exceptional
In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war.
I am not surprised that the president of the United States called this a phony scandal. I'm not surprised Secretary Clinton asked, "What difference does it make?" I'm not even surprised that Jay Carney said Benghazi happened a long time ago. I'm just surprised at how many people bought it.
Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization.
One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using accounting for fraud and folly is a disgrace. In a democracy, it often takes a scandal to trigger reform. Enron was the most obvious example of a business culture gone wrong in a long, long time.
Jesus didn’t care about the scandal. He cared about the scandalous.
Longevity conquers scandal every time.
This is a very fashionable charge to bring against a company.
This is one of the consequences, in this country, of being in the Internet industry. I think it's quite scandalous, they brought the weakest charges they had.
Our life and our death is with our neighbor.
If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we have sinned against Christ.
Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.
In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.
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.
Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.
All one great big lie.
Let's not overlook, though, what we do know about the campaign finance scandal, and the fact the Chinese were involved in our presidential campaign and our congressional campaigns.
Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality
Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.
As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.
You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.
No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.
My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
In a free country, America, or India, and Japan, and many places, democracy country, free country, but still within the sort of rule of law, some injustice, some sort of problems, some discrimination, and also some sort of scandals or the corruptions. These things, you see, they are always in my mind, I think many people agree, lack of moral principle.
I changed those things that were in direct - my direct control. I mean, I - look, I'm proud of the fact that, with two weeks to go, we're probably the first administration in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House.
A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible.