Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought. ("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")
It is an heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in't.
You build a thing of beauty, and then the peasants storm the castle, hooting and chanting and calling you a heretic.
A man without reason is no better than a mad dog, and mad dogs must be put down for the good of everyone.
...I tried to pretend that what we were enacting was nothing more than an intricate kind of handshake." ~Malcolm
I may err but I am not a heretic, for the first has to do with the mind and the second with the will!
The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.
[Mary, on her deathbed, is refusing to sign a warrant for Elizabeth's execution] Norfolk: Will you leave your kingdom to a heretic?
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic
The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.
In 1487 alone, two hundred heretics had-in one of the greatest euphemisms in the history of language-"relaxed," that is, burned at the stake. Dogs of God, Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors
Wars are all fought by men who either believe they are right or who have no other choice. How they fight defines who they are when the blood stops flowing.
The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else.
People are like books. You can either read them, or you can burn them. But before I try to read you, I’ve got to ask, Are you a heretic?
Some people think I'm a mycological heretic, some people think I'm a mycological revolutionary, and some just think I'm crazy.
The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.
The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all h...
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
