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Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt. — John Calvin

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. — Sam Harris

Isn't it strange how silence, in a way, has a sound of its own? — Greg Gifune

Heretics are the new leaders. The ones who challenge the status quo, who get out in front of their tribes, who create movements. — Seth Godin

The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow. — Hermann Hesse

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

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.
("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

For this reason the bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow. That — Hermann Hesse

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later. — Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. ("Tomorrow") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe. — Albert Einstein

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else. — G.K. Chesterton

The third major rebel against Catholicism was Henry VIII, whose administration burned, on average, 3.25 heretics per year.38 — Steven Pinker

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration. — John Locke

For what I was to see at the abbey would make me think that it is often inquisitors who create heretics. — Umberto Eco

For some dark reason you heretics come in droves to this House of God. Its light attracts you, but you are incapable of recognizing that. — Javier Sierra

Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic — Ludwig Wittgenstein

That is the way of it among heretics. They start questioning one doctrine and end up questioning everything. No wonder they used to burn them. — Michael Flynn

But this is what leads the heretics astray: that they look upon nature and person as the same thing — John Damascene

Conformists die, but heretics live forever. — Elbert Hubbard

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

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

We wanted to raise a generation of heretics, but instead we raised a generation of ignoramuses — Berl Katznelson

Polytheism is inherently open-minded, and rarely persecutes 'heretics' and 'infidels'. — Yuval Noah Harari

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress. — Gelett Burgess

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs. — Harold Innis

Thieves, Heretics, and Whores — Patrick Rothfuss

When would-be reformers arise, they are rejected as heretics, turncoats, troublemakers, disturbers of the peace, traitors, and enemies. — Brian D. McLaren

All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today. — Yip Harburg