Heretic – Quotes

Many who burnt heretics

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

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. Ezra Pound

I myself have read

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

A heresy can spring

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

One century\\’s saint is

One century’s saint is the next century’s heretic … and one century’s heretic is the next century’s saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man. Ellis Peters

Well, another female child

Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton – oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that holy holiday – opened her soft blue eyes on this mundane sphere. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Conformists die, but heretics

Conformists die, but heretics live forever. Elbert Hubbard

Christians have … identified

Christians have … identified their opponents, whether Jews, pagans, or heretics, with forces of evil, and so with Satan… Nor have things improved since. The blood-soaked history of persecution, torture, murder, and destruction perpetrated in the name of religion is difficult to grasp, let alohne summarize, from the slaughter of Christians to the Crusades to … Read more

He drew a circle

He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem \” Outwitted Edwin Markham

I have always been

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