Heretics Quotes

67 Heretics quotes by 56 unique authors

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor… — Aleister Crowley
It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be… — Thabo Mbeki
The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in… — Steven Pinker
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars… — John Shelby Spong
Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg… — Tom Holt
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 end of the… — Thomas Pynchon
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Heretics are wicked, but they're mighty int'resting. It's jest that they've got sorter lost looking for God, being under the impression that He's hard to… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Thieves, Heretics, and Whores — Patrick Rothfuss
The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's… — Albert Einstein
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (“Tomorrow”) — Yevgeny Zamyatin
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
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."… — Umberto Eco
Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God… — Florence Nightingale
The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation,… — Christopher Hitchens
Wherefore if forgers of money and other evil-doers are forthwith condemned to death by the secular authority, much more reason is there for heretics, as… — St Thomas Aquinas
MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee,… — Ambrose Bierce

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