Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I do not believe that any book should be denied to the man who possesses the wisdom to understand it, Bruno, but… — S.J. Parris Copy Share Image
It follows from the assumption of a universally valid ideology, just as night follows day, that other positions are heresy. — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
“This authority stood steady as the cathedral itself. The building was raised once and for all, and for those who dare doubt… — André Bjerke Copy Share Image
“All right, so you believe in Santa Claus, and I'll believe in the 'Great Pumpkin.' The way I see it, it doesn't… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
“a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation.… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
More than most, I believe I'm highly attuned to how heresies eventually become mainstream belief systems and how the vast majority of… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
“A reader has recently described the Heresy novels as "Dan Brown meets Guy Ritchie" and "I am constantly telling people about the… — Alexander Ferrar Copy Share Image
A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
I must admit that any favorable mention of the flying saucers by a scientist amounts to extreme heresy and places the one… — Frank B. Salisbury Copy Share Image
“Marx concocted his heresy in a time in which greatly increased knowledge of nature had, as we remarked earlier, sent Nature’s God… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
“Secularization—that is, the gradual conformity of our thinking, beliefs, commitments, and practices to the pattern of this fading age—is not just something… — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“The Holy Spirit did not go into such detail about the Pharisees in the New Testament just so we could understand a… — J.D. Greear Copy Share Image
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious and circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he… — Junichiro Koizumi Copy Share Image
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies;… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too… — David Pilbeam Copy Share Image
The truth alone has never set anyone free. It is only DOUBT which will bring mental emancipation. Without the wonderful element of… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
I would say much of religious heresy is the result of a misunderstanding of the basic nature of God. And once we… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
The Illuminati Order was preceded in the 1500's in Spain by the 'Alumbrados', a Christian heresy started by crypto Jews called 'Marranos'.… — Henry Makow Copy Share Image
In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts:… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
There is no society that protects freedom of religion more than secular democracies, because in societies where one religion rules, different viewpoints… — Flemming Rose Copy Share Image
... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
![“But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power." "Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?" "That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy…” quote by Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2a9/umberto-eco-313_accepting_but-why-do-some-people-support-the-heret_2387868.jpg)
