We have all heard some of the favorite quotes about nudity, such as "If God had wanted us to be nude, we would have been born that way."
If you have some quotes, place them here--and attitribute the quip to the one who originally said it, if you know. And if you have a good line, please contribute.
"Because God created it, the human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve intact its splendor and beauty" -- Pope John Paul II
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- BABarefootBillOriginal PosterMay 25, 2009
I am sure most of you have seen this one. I know I have seen it as a signature tag to at least one very active member.
“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact
that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than
the garment with which it is clothed?” — MichelangeloReactReply - MEMemberMay 25, 2009"Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, To taste whole joys." -John DonneReactReply
- BABarefootBillOriginal PosterMay 25, 2009
Great. We are just beginning and are definitely far from being Donne yet.
ReactReply - BABarefootBillOriginal PosterMay 26, 2009
If we don't have uniforms, might be hard to know who your enemies are. Difficult to fight a war if everyone is naked.
ReactReply - BABarefootBillOriginal PosterMay 27, 2009
We are created in His image, and God didn't create no junk.
ReactReply - BABarefootBillOriginal PosterMay 27, 2009
Thanks for giving us the entire quote. Great words of wisdom from a great man.
ReactReply - BABarefootBillOriginal PosterMay 27, 2009
People do not need laws, they need a conscience.
ReactReply - MEMemberMay 27, 2009
Jesus said, "Do not fret from morning to evening and from evening to morning about what you are going to wear."
His disciples said, "When will you appear to us, and when will we see you?"
Jesus said, "When you strip yourselves naked without being ashamed, and you take your clothes and put them under your feet like little children and trample them, then you will see the son of the Living One, and you will not be afraid."
Gospel of Thomas, verses 36–37ReactReply - MEMemberMay 27, 2009
"Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism."
--John UpdikeReactReply - MEMemberMay 27, 2009From the movieThe Goodbye Girl: --I thought you said you were decent. --I am decent. I also happen to be naked.ReactReply
- MEMemberMay 27, 2009As I walk’d slowly over the grass, the sun shone out enough to show the shadow moving with me. Somehow I seem’d to get identity with each and every thing around me, in its condition Nature was naked, and I was also. It was too lazy, soothing, and joyous-equable to speculate about. Yet I might have thought somehow in this vein: Perhaps the inner never lost rapport we hold with earth, light, air, trees, &c., is not to be realized through eyes and mind only, but through the whole corporeal body, which I will not have blinded or bandaged any more than the eyes. Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature!—ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your respectability, that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent. Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating extasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is—nor what faith or art or health really is. (Probably the whole curriculum of first-class philosophy, beauty, heroism, form, illustrated by the old Hellenic race—the highest height and deepest depth known to civilization in those departments—came from their natural and religious idea of Nakedness.) --from "A Sun-Bath—Nakedness" by Walt WhitmanReactReply
- BABarefootBillOriginal PosterMay 27, 2009
"The only thing wrong with nudity is a society that says nudity is wrong." -- Bill Pacer
ReactReply - BABarefootBillOriginal PosterMay 27, 2009
Be free. Get out of the closet. Closets are for clothes.
ReactReply - MEMemberMay 28, 2009And the weaver said, "Speak to us of Clothes." And he answered: Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less of your raiment, For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind. Some of you say, "It is the north wind who has woven the clothes to wear." But shame was his loom, and the softening of the sinews was his thread. And when his work was done he laughed in the forest. Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean. And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind? And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.-Khalil Gibran - quote from "The Prophet"ReactReply
- BABarefootBillOriginal PosterMay 28, 2009"Those with power and prejudice fear those with courage and determination"--Bill PacerReactReply
- BABarefootBillOriginal PosterMay 28, 2009
Nudists take showers with their clothes on.
ReactReply - BABarefootBillOriginal PosterMay 29, 2009
"This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed
in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a
prisoner he had been."
Edgar Rice Burroghs, "Tarzan of the Apes"ReactReply - BABarefootBillOriginal PosterJun 1, 2009
I cannot take credit for this one. I do not know who said it--I just saw it posted recently.
"Being nude is like being barefoot all over"ReactReply - BABarefootBillOriginal PosterJun 8, 2009
Nudists never get caught with their pants down
ReactReply - BABarefootBillOriginal PosterJun 10, 2009
Being naked is not being ashamed; it is being whole and wholesome---Bill Pacer
ReactReply - BABarefootBillOriginal PosterJun 10, 2009
Thanks for the great John Lennon quote.
ReactReply - MEMemberJun 11, 2009Strip naked and walk down the street nude, handgun in one hand, and machete in the other, and people will call the police and report " there is a naked man in the street!" hehehehehe
ReactReply - BABarefootBillOriginal PosterJun 11, 2009
Love that. I have been told Neil Simon penned something similar. Regardless, great comment on our textile obsessed society.
ReactReply - BABarefootBillOriginal PosterJun 14, 2009
We are created in His image, so I wish to be adorned in His image. He created us nude, so nude should be the way.
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