#heretic

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#better #cannot #dead #distinguish #eyes

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. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#catholic #desperation #go #heaven #heretic

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#defeats #endure #faith #fashion #heretic

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

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#heretics #writers #writing #art

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. ↗

— Martin Luther

#anything #bound #decide #dispute #err

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#banned #burned #heretics #point #point of view

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 hope. ↗

— John Strachan

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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#bitter #entropy #heretics #human #human thought

I once saw the world’s ugliest baby drown. But then I realized, “That’s not a baby, that’s a log. And it’s not drowning, it’s burning.” I wonder what it did to deserve that? It was probably a heretic. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#burn #drown #funny #heretic #ugly

There’s a name for devout people who worship reverence. Heretics. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #heretics #humor #funny