Ashes Quote by Sam Harris

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 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

It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should…

— Sam Harris

The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was…

— Alistair Begg

When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin…

— Lord Acton

The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into…

— John Mortimer

“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

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions...…

— George Santayana

“The explosion of grotesque immorality we associate with imperial Rome—open prostitution and perversion, the bloody gladiatorial combats, and so forth—is best understood as a…

— Rod Bennett

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

Prior to and during [John] Locke's time, it was difficult to determine where religion or church left off and government or state began. The…

— Jayne Meadows

Every reformation ruins somebody.

— Amelia B. Edwards