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Tag Name "Heretic" (103)

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I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.
Albert Einstein
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Hence from all we have hitherto said, it is clear beloved Catholics that we cannot approve the opinions which some [Protestants, Jews, and other heretics] comprise under the head of Americanism [freedom].
Pope Leo XIII
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As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had deserted Cubism.
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
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And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public executions were more popular than ever: heretics were still reduced to ash, scholars were tortured and killed for impertinent displays of reason, and fornicators were murdered without a qualm.
Sam Harris
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The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell.
Girolamo Savonarola
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The word heretic ought to be a term of honour.
Charles Bradlaugh
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I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
Meister Eckhart
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What I am is a heretic who's recanted, and thereby in everyone's eyes saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.
Robert M. Pirsig
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The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.
Harold Innis
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If someone has a Muslim background and they're willing to reject those tenets and to accept the way of life that we have and clearly will swear to place our [American] Constitution above their religion, then, of course, they will be considered infidels and heretics, but at least I would then be quite willing to support them.
Benjamin Carson
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A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic or be led astray by the devil.
Louis de Montfort
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Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Albert Camus
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I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.
Edward R. Murrow
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When the Church obtained the direction of the civil power, she soon modified or abandoned the tolerant maxims she had formerly inculcated and, in the course of a few years, restrictive laws were enacted, both against the Jews and against the heretics.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an affair.... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?
Salman Rushdie
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I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though deriving this benefit: I was able to refute them for myself and loathe them even more.
Eusebius
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Thieves, Heretics, and Whores
Patrick Rothfuss
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In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.
N. Scott Momaday
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If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who thirsts come? To heretics where the fountain and river of water is in no way life-giving? Or to the Church, which is One?
Cyprian
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A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
Irenaeus of Lyons
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To Arab Sunni Islamists, Iranians are gabrs (Zoroastrians) while Shi'ites, including Arab ones, are rafidis (heretics) who must be “re-converted” or put to death.
Amir Taheri
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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.
Joseph Addison
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