Heretic Quotes

114 quotes by 93 authors

It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for… — H. L. Mencken
Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith will not last.… — John Henry Newman
Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of heathens, and… — Savitri Devi
We wanted to raise a generation of heretics, but instead we raised a generation of ignoramuses — Berl Katznelson
False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. — Jacques Barzun
I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead,… — Edward R. Murrow
Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress. — Gelett Burgess
Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo. — Jay Griffiths
Take note, theologians, that in your desire to make matters of faith out of propositions relating to the fixity of sun and earth you run… — Galileo Galilei
Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, â€˜Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are… — John Donne
... faithfully and strenuously you should resist the heretics in defense of the only true and life-giving faith, which the Church has received - the… — Pope Clement I
It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it. — William Shakespeare
There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole… — John Stuart Mill
Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. TomÃ¡s de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the] torture and the… — Walter Cronkite
The declared enemies of God and His Church, heretics and schismatics, must be criticized as much as possible, as long as truth is not denied.… — Saint Francis de Sales
Sacred Scripture, since it has no science above itself, can dispute with one who denies its principles only if the opponent admits some at least… — Thomas Aquinas
'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic. — Benjamin Franklin
There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been… — George Bernard Shaw
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. — George Bernard Shaw

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