Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is an heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in't.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Being a heretic can be fun, but being a successful heretic is mostly hard work.” — John Brockman Copy Share Image
The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs. — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
No man is to lower himself by showing tolerance towards any sort of heretic, least of all a Calvinist — Cardinal Caraffa Copy Share Image
'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Every great philosopher, in their own way, questioned the fundamental assumptions that were present in the thinking of their time” — Steven West Copy Share Image
“I know that many women who read this will see it only as further proof that I am the godless heretic everyone… — Brandon Sanderson 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
By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church… — Pope Innocent III Copy Share Image
I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and… — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
“He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to… — Edwin Markham 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
“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 disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I am an atheist. There, I said it. Are you happy, all you atheists out there who have remonstrated with me for… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Categorical condemnation is the hatred of the mob. It makes cowards brave. And there is nothing more fearful than a religious mob,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I don't believe that God is a fussy faultfinder in dealing with theological ideas. He who provides forgiveness for a sinful life… — Helmut Thielicke Copy Share Image
"If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
... faithfully and strenuously you should resist the heretics in defense of the only true and life-giving faith, which the Church has… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
“Pick a man, any man. That man there. See him. That man hatless. You know his opinion of the world. You can… — Cormac McCarthy 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
Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon… — William Lloyd Garrison 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
“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 Copy Share Image
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I have been called a heretic, an apostate, an adulterer, a charlatan and an addict. — Paula White Copy Share Image
Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image