Irreverence Quotes

I was really hooked on movies at a very young age. The Manchurian Candidate, along with Seven Days in May, Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove were this quartet of anarchistic black-and-white American movies, each of which did things that you just didn`t do in American movies, especially in the realm of irreverence toward politics and government institutions and the Army. I was what, 16, it was shocking, it was thrilling and interestingly it predated my exposure to the French New Wave, so in away, this was the American, a certain kind of new wave in American movies.

It turns the whole thing on its ear a little bit, ... It`s fun, it`s goofy. There`s definitely a total irreverence to our approach. ... And then there`s the pragmatic side of us that said, `Why in God`s name would we spend all this money ... to fill a church for an hour?`

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man`s god

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense

It is important that students bring a certain rafamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it