The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
To Arab Sunni Islamists, Iranians are gabrs (Zoroastrians) while Shi'ites, including Arab ones, are rafidis (heretics) who must be “re-converted” or put… — Amir Taheri Copy Share Image
“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People knew less of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Prior to and during [John] Locke's time, it was difficult to determine where religion or church left off and government or state… — Jayne Meadows Copy Share Image
Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
The Heretic Queen is historical fiction at its best. Michelle Moran seamlessly incorporates accurate details into a story full of suspense, intrigue,… — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
For men's religion to God is between God and themselves. The king shall not answer for it. Neither may the king be… — Thomas Helwys Copy Share Image
Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently,… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view,… — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
For Christians to be linked in association with ministries who do not preach the gospel of Christ is to incur moral guilt.… — Charles Haddon Copy Share Image
That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself. — Aubrey Menen Copy Share Image
I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - [Thomas More] burning of heretics. It… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
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