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• The Pope should not flatter himself about his power nor should he rashly glory in his honor and high estate, because the less he is judged by man, the more he is judged by God. Still the less can the Roman Pontiff glory because he can be judged by men, or rather, can be shown to be already judged, if for example he should wither away into heresy; because he who does not believe is already judged, In such a case it should be said of him: 'If salt should lose its savor, it is good for nothing but to be cast out and trampled under foot by men.'

  Pope Innocent III

  Believe, Men, Feet

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• Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social duty. Then comes the rise of a priesthood, and the independent thinker is met with punishment in this world and the threat of eternal damnation hereafter. Even today it is from the religious side that the greatest danger to freedom of thought comes. Religion is the last thing that man will civilise.

  Chapman Cohen

  Religious, Independent, Men

  "The Freethinker", Vol. 84, G.W. Foote,(p. 215), 1964.

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• 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.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Faith, Wisdom, Religious

  "Arpilei Tohar" by Abraham Isaac Kook, (p. 2), 1914.

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• For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true and only sense, and this in defiance of the clear meaning of words. Heresy lies in the sense assigned, not in the word written; the guilt is that of the expositor, not of the text.

  Hilary of Poitiers

  Lying, Guilt, Arbitrary

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• A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.

  Conrad Black

  War, Taken, Quests

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• Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Shots, Certain, Sermons

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• We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

  Mao Zedong

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

  Che Guevara

  Leader, Anarchy, Dictator

  "An American Savage". Book by J. Flash (Jeff Flashinski), p. 144, 2003.

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• The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

  Joseph Sobran

  People, Doe, Anarchy

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• Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

  Giordano Bruno

  Fear, Atheism, Sentences

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Alive, World, Copernicus

  "Tomorrow" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Mirra Ginsburg in "A Soviet Heretic : Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin" (1970), 1919.

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• I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Trying, Littles, Lasts

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics?

  Shashi Tharoor

  Identity Politics, Vedas, Fundamentals

  Shashi Tharoor (2007). “The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-century Power”, p.75, Penguin Books India

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• History is the propaganda of the victors.

  Louis de Bernieres

  History, Anarchy, Propaganda

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.57, Vintage

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• I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

  Che Guevara

  Determination, Fall, Gun

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• If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Religion

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• In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Fire, Separation Of Church And State, Absurd

  James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers: The Making of the US Constitution”, p.18, Arcturus Publishing

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• There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Freedom, Men, Tyrants

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.55, Library of Alexandria

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• The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Moving, Sea

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  You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

  Cornelius Vanderbilt

  Cheating, Revenge, Law

  Cornelius Vanderbilt (1956). “Queen of the Golden Age: the fabulous story of Grace Wilson Vanderbilt”

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• If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Past, Cells, Years

  1973 'Fear and Loathing at the Superbowl', in Rolling Stone, 15 Feb.

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• What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears? The Church and the heresies always used to fight about words, because they are the only thing worth fighting about.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Moving, Angel, Fighting

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• Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Doubt, Progress, Church

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.88, Library of Alexandria

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• Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Race, Ideas

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• Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Odd Things, Righteousness, Foe

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2699, Simon and Schuster

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