Civilization Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded.…

— Emile M. Cioran

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

“if Westerners deem themselves too smart, too moral, or too soft to stop aggressors in this complex nuclear age, then—as Socrates and Aristotle alike…

— Victor Davis Hanson

And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public…

— Sam Harris

“If we are content to go back and become humble plain men obeying tradition, well. If we are ready to climb and struggle on…

— C.S. Lewis

“The first thing for you to understand is that in this place there are no martyrdoms. You have read of the religious persecutions of…

— George Orwell

In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be…

— Alexandre Dumas

We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be…

— Edward R. Murrow

Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Satan laughed his unkind laugh to a finish; then he said: "It is a remarkable progress. In five or six thousand years five or…

— Mark Twain