Heretics Quotes

67 Heretics quotes by 56 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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

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