Death Quote by St Thomas Aquinas

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death…

— Thomas Aquinas

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

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

Heresy is the lifeblood of religions. It is faith that begets heresies. There are no heresies in a dead religion.

— Andre Suares

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

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

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

Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who…

— John Donne

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

Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.

— Pope Leo XIII

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

— G. M. Trevelyan

In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics…

— R. C. Sproul