Hated Quote by Learned Hand

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

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

Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the…

— Martin Luther

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

— G. M. Trevelyan

Wherefore if forgers of money and other evil-doers are forthwith condemned to death by the secular authority, much more reason is there for heretics,…

— St Thomas Aquinas

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

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

Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good,…

— Martin Luther

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

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

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