Peter Abelard

Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

French Philosopher

Isabella Bird

In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many sincere Buddhists; but China is irreligious: a nation of atheists or agnostics, or slaves of impious superstitions. In an extended tramp among temples, I have not seen a single male worshiper or a thing to please the eye.

English Explorer

Saint Basil

It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions there are transitions from one condition to the contrary.

Greek Saint

Richard Corliss

Though not really a comedy, 'Rosewater' is a demonstration of the creed behind 'The Daily Show': belief in the crucial need for impious wit against entrenched power. The freedom of the press is also the freedom to depress - and to inspire. That's a message that can outlive any Oscar season.

American Writer

James L. Petigru

It does not, surely, require such torrents of blood to satisfy any reasonable man that nothing can be a more impious presumption than for either side to think themselves entitled to count the Almighty as an ally in such a pitiful display of human passion.

American Public Servant

Conrad Black

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

British Businessman

Peter Lombard

Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.

French Theologian

Giordano Bruno

Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil.

Italian Philosopher

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

Italian Writer

Aeschylus

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

Greek Poet

Impious often suggests something offensive or morally wrong about the lack of respect shown.

Negative Feeling

Commonly used to talk about actions or attitudes in a religious setting or towards sacred things.

Religious Context

Be aware of different religious beliefs when using 'impious' to avoid offending someone unintentionally.

Cultural Sensitivity

 and you're living in a sort of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart so that's the sort of tough choice I don't think we have to make that choice I think there is an alternative I think there are ways and I'm being both very respectful and completely impious of stealing from religions if you don't

Atheism 2.0 - Alain de...

 you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart. So that's a sort of tough choice. I don't think we have to make that choice. I think there is an alternative. I think there are ways -- and I'm being both very respectful and completely impious --