Things happen for a reason Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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

All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be…

— Lu Xun

Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians,…

— Thomas Hobbes

“a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies…

— Rob Bell

“The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate bondage, and the meanest…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in…

— Susan B. Anthony

There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not…

— George Bernard Shaw

I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people.

— Mario Monti

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

— Thomas Jefferson

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in…

— Susan B. Anthony

“Have we not already seen enough of the fallacy and extravagance of those idle theories which have amused us with promises of an exemption…

— Alexander Hamilton

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