Astonishment Quote by Hilary Mantel

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

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

Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of heathens,…

— Savitri Devi

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

"The Wolfpack" is a real life clash of life and fiction and the saving power of brotherhood and make-believe.

— James Franco

“In 1487 alone, two hundred heretics had-in one of the greatest euphemisms in the history of language-"relaxed," that is, burned at the stake. Dogs…

— James Reston

“There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans”

— David McCullough

“Throughout the history of mankind, there have been two kinds of people; those who write the books and those who burn them. The rest…

— M.Z.Riffi

“Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'

— Hilary Mantel

We're the culture that cried wolf.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“There is something frightful in the fact that the most dangerous thing of all, playing at Christianity, is never included in the list of…

— Søren Kierkegaard