Being a heretic can be fun, but being a successful heretic…

Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too,…

— Saint Augustine

Now that they talk about Islam as being a violent faith, when you look at the history of Christendom, the Crusades and the many…

— Desmond Tutu

Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of…

— Bertrand Russell

Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.”

— Susan B. Anthony

I have no expertise of other religious traditions so I'm not going to opine on them, but in Islam the more you know about…

— Haroon Moghul

Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

— Albert Camus

Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it.

— Eavan Boland

Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves;…

— Saint Augustine

"If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who thirsts come?…

— Cyprian

The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the…

— Girolamo Savonarola

... faithfully and strenuously you should resist the heretics in defense of the only true and life-giving faith, which the Church has received -…

— Pope Clement I

“Every great philosopher, in their own way, questioned the fundamental assumptions that were present in the thinking of their time”

— Steven West

A heretic can be tolerated. But a heresy cannot.

— Mahathir Mohamad

Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black…

— Pat Conroy