Heretics Quotes
67 Heretics quotes by 56 unique authors
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The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (“Tomorrowâ€)
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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