“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
“-"I have kept the faith, Planchard." -"Then you are the only man who has" Planchard said, "and it is an heretical faith."… — Bernard Cornwell 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
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
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
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
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
“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
This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair"… And has it really… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The entire force of the Conciliar revolt comes from the fact that it has apparently been imposed by the authority of the… — John Lane Copy Share Image
... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at… — Rebecca West 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
“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 recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Fortunately, there are old terrors and powers that religion no longer can exercise so effectively as it did only a few score… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the… — Umberto Eco 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 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
“Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?" "I consider their disdain for her to… — brandon sanderson Copy Share Image
For what I saw at the abbey then (and will now recount) caused me to think that often inquisitors create heretics. And… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I saw also the relationship between the two popes I saw how baleful (evil; harmful) would be the consequences of this false… — Anne Catherine Emmerich 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
There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors,… — George Bernard Shaw 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
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
Today's liberal intellectuals, who pride themselves on scientific method and being “broadminded”, are the most narrow-minded, self-righteous and hate-filled bigots in the… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be… — Aldous Huxley 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
I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it… — Robert M. Pirsig 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
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
When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated;… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and… — Robert D. Brinsmead 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
Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
![“But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power." "Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?" "That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy…” quote by Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a9/umberto-eco-313_accepting_but-why-do-some-people-support-the-heret_2387868.jpg)
