It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness… — Albert Einstein 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
“I was born a heretic. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what… — Sydney J. Harris 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
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
THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER is raw, honest and completely captivating. Kathleen Kent takes what would seem to be a familiar subject and gives… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“We owe a wealth of gratitude to the many heretics that have gone before us, those that had thought independently, and courageously,… — Beth Sage Owens Copy Share Image
Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit… — Saint Augustine 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
Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or… — Pat Conroy 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
“Scaffolds, dungeons, jails flourish only in the shadow of a faith—of that need to believe which has infested the mind forever. The… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
How can we feel our need of His help, or our dependence on Him, or our debt to Him, or the nature… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Your mythology can and will change as you grow older and you learn more about life and the spiritual worlds. You are… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Lives of great men all remind us, Greatness takes no easy way, All the heroes of tomorrow, Are the heretics of today.… — Yip Harburg Copy Share Image
Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses,… — M. M. Mangasarian 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
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
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
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
The strength of that heretic [Calvin] consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such… — Pope Pius IV Copy Share Image
The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use… — Girolamo Savonarola Copy Share Image
Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“and it all comes down to this a gospel written in the living an incantation we pass hand to hand soul to… — Stephanie Greene Copy Share Image
With 'Heretic,' it was about finding different levels of fear and plotting out a fear map; if you get to the highest… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
“But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
“It would cause nothing but madness, Thomas thought. Men would fight for it, lie for it, cheat for it, betray for it… — Bernard Cornwell 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
“I refuse to share the thoughts of the ordinary. I am the outsider not because they expelled me but because I expelled… — Mark Romel Copy Share Image
Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image