Heretic Quote by Yip Harburg

Lives of great men all remind us, Greatness takes no easy way, All the heroes of tomorrow, Are the heretics of today. Socrates and…

— Yip Harburg

The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow… But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. Heretics…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

— Saint Augustine

“We owe a wealth of gratitude to the many heretics that have gone before us, those that had thought independently, and courageously, and dared…

— Beth Sage Owens

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

— G. M. Trevelyan

Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of…

— Florence Nightingale

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

— Jacques Barzun

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

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation…

— Sun Myung Moon