Heresy Quotes

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. (Graham Greene)
Progress, that great heresy of degenerates. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy. View quote
Learned Hand
England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors. View quote
George Santayana
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. View quote
Naguib Mahfouz
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. View quote
Helen Keller
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. View quote
James Joyce
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man. (Francis Parkman)
What's up is faith, what's down is heresy. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow. View quote
John Polanyi
Heresy is the life of a mythology, and orthodoxy is the death. View quote
Joseph Campbell
It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. View quote
Galileo Galilei
The pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom. View quote
Abraham Isaac Kook
Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy. View quote
Rumi
Better heresy of doctrine than heresy of heart. View quote
John Greenleaf Whittier
Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
Science is the most real guide for civilisation, for life, for success in the world. To search for a guide other than science is absurdity, ignorance and heresy. View quote
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and became of great social significance. In the next chapter I shall examine the creation of social deviants, and shall show that as formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen. View quote
Thomas Szasz
We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today. View quote
Thomas Szasz
In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery. ... Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery” as "heresy, sodomy.”. View quote
Thomas Szasz