Heresy quotes

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◆ It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

- Robert A Heinlein100

◆ Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

- H G Wells99

◆ It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

- Voltaire99

◆ Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro99

◆ According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

- Naguib Mahfouz99

◆ A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

- Eric Hoffer99

◆ History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

- Thomas Huxley99

◆ There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

- James Joyce99

◆ Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin

- Robert Green Ingersoll99

◆ Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy

- Louise Imogen Guiney99

◆ They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion

- Thomas Hobbes99

◆ A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian

- Benjamin Franklin99

◆ There are no heresies in a dead religion

- Andre Suares99

◆ Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

- Graham Greene99

◆ Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak

- Robert Green Ingersoll99