Quote by George Orwell

“And yet, the fact that we are no longer killing people for heresy in the West suggests that bad ideas, however sacred, cannot survive…

— Sam Harris

“Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.”

— Joseph Campbell

“Heresy kicks ass.”

— P.S. Baber

“Maybe there was a very good reason for the primal terror that lies in every human heart, a forgotten understanding that there are some…

— Eyre Price

“Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen.”

— Dan Simmons

“There are many ways to scare people. Religion seems to be the best of these.”

— Art Hochberg

“No one knew why the aliens wouldn’t talk to us in person; fear of cooties, maybe.”

— Ted Chiang

“...people do not want to hear that aliens are just like us. They want wise angels and noble savages.”

— James Cambias

“Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”

— George Eliot

“There was something about the fear of death that kept humanity on its toes. Without it, things fell apart fast.”

— M.D. Cooper

“(U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it…

— Northrop Frye

“Was that such a heresy, to admit that your love for your family wasn't sufficiently all-consuming as to extinguish all other desires?”

— Christopher Brookmyre