The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Being a heretic can be fun, but being a successful heretic is mostly hard work.” — John Brockman Copy Share Image
It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests,… — Martin Luther 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
Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as… — David Cameron 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
Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In Europe I have been accused of taking my scientific ideas from the Church. In America I have been called a heretic,… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria… — Nils Kjaer Copy Share Image
As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of… — Thomas Szasz 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
A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
“To the mass of mankind, therefore, the philosopher may appear as a spiritual saboteur, a subverter of things lawfully established, and an… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
Of the six men who have done most to make America the wonder and the joy she is to all of us,… — John Chadwick Copy Share Image
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the]… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith… — John Henry Newman 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
Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it,… — Tom Holt Copy Share Image
“Any scientist that wants to change the prevailing paradigm is automatically branded a heretic, apostate, infidel, blasphemer, maverick or lunatic, exactly as… — Thomas Stark Copy Share Image
He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
I have been called a heretic, an apostate, an adulterer, a charlatan and an addict. — Paula White 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
'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic. — Benjamin Franklin 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
The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs. — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image