Heretic Quotes

The word heretic ought to be a term of honour...

— Charles Bradlaugh

The world is kept alive only by heretics.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.

— Yip Harburg

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

— Eavan Boland

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!

— Attila the Stockbroker

“this is blasphemy and you're a heretic”

— Drew Ketterer

You don't have a god in you, you are one.

— Kenneth Copeland

A heretic can be tolerated. But a heresy cannot.

— Mahathir Mohamad

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

— Aubrey Menen

Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

— Jay Griffiths

No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

— Anonymous

In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

— Richard B. Garnett

Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.

— Louis de Montfort

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

— Kristine Kathryn Rusch

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a…

— Desiderius Erasmus

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.

— Jack Nicholson

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden…

— Aldous Huxley

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with…

— Blaise Pascal

Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to…

— John Donne

As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so…

— Alfred H. Barr, Jr

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

— Saint Augustine

He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit…

— Edwin Markham

“I was born a heretic. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice…

— George Washington

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“The prophet—coming forth from time to time with the divine word hot as fire on his lips—speaks out the ancient truth and…

— Annie Besant

During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if…

— Margaret E. Knight

Neither logic nor scientific evidence supports such a belief. Although spinal manipulation can relieve certain types of back pain, neck pain, and…

— Samuel Homola

“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

We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and…

— Alec Guinness

Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has…

— Learned Hand

If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered,…

— A.J. Ayer

If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we…

— A. H. Almaas

The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God…

— Albert Einstein

I have never in my life encountered a religion as oppressive, cold, and stiff as Progressivism. I've never known a faith more…

— Matt Walsh

Why does the left hate free speech? Because they don't know how to talk about the substantive merits when they are challenged.…

— Ann Althouse

“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

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

For Christians to be linked in association with ministries who do not preach the gospel of Christ is to incur moral guilt.…

— Charles Haddon

“En Skoemager maa og tildeels være Theologus; saa at han veed at giøre Forskiel imellem Religions-Secter: Thi eet er at arbejde for…

— Ludvig Holberg

“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