Anger Quote by Edward R. Murrow

It was a very stupid mistake to think you could deal with heresy by burning heretics. It's the very same mistake that modernist Catholics…

— Peter Kreeft

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

— G. M. Trevelyan

Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved…

— Learned Hand

I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though deriving this…

— Eusebius

There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose…

— John Stuart Mill

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…

— Anonymous

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the…

— Lev Shestov

To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - [Thomas More] burning of heretics. It was well…

— Hilary Mantel

“The religion of the flag promptly replaced the cult of heaven, an old cloud which had already been deflated by the Reformation and reduced…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and though great…

— Anne Royall

Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation…

— Shadia Drury

The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good…

— Maurice Maeterlinck