Dolly Parton

Dollywood is a family park, and all families are welcome. We do have a policy about profanity or controversial messages on clothing or signs. It is to protect the individual wearing or carrying them, as well as to keep down fights or problems by those opposed to it at the park.

American Singer

Ernest Hemingway

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.

American Novelist

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

Anita Baker

We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.

American Musician

Stephen Adly Guirgis

I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.

American Playwright

Norman Schwarzkopf

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

American General

Mark Twain

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

American Writer

John Wooden

I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don't criticize a teammate. Never be late.

American Coach

Robert Klein

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

American Comedian

Nicholas Sparks

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

American Author

Profanity varies between cultures; what's rude in one may be mild in another.

Cultural Sensitivity

Using profanity can imply aggression or a lack of education to some listeners.

Social Connotations

Most workplaces consider profanity inappropriate and unprofessional.

Professional Environments

In religious contexts, profanity is taken more seriously and can offend believers.

Religious Contexts

Profanity's perception has evolved; actions once seen as profane may not be today.

Historical Perspective

Not all religious profanity is equal; some expressions are more offensive than others.

Severity of Offense

 One word of profanity, and you are out of here for the day. If I see it in a game, you're going to come out and sit on the bench. And the third one was, never criticize a teammate. I didn't want that. I used to tell them I was paid to do that.

The difference between...

 Many probably have associations with words and may be drawn to ones that elicit certain responses— hence their capacity for profanity. But, especially after training, parrots have been observed to say things in the appropriate contexts