Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress. — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“This authority stood steady as the cathedral itself. The building was raised once and for all, and for those who dare doubt… — André Bjerke Copy Share Image
I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
“In 1487 alone, two hundred heretics had-in one of the greatest euphemisms in the history of language-"relaxed," that is, burned at the… — James Reston 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
Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Now all these [heretics] are of much later date than the bishops to whom the apostles committed the Churches; which” — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as… — Aleister Crowley 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
“When they painted Heretics on our barn and set fire to it, I thought that was the worst it could get. Until… — Laurie Forest Copy Share Image
Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“If the moderns really want a simple religion of love, they must look for it in the Athanasian Creed. The truth is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")” — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism.… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or… — Florence Nightingale 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
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