quotes about Heretic
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Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.
-- Albert Camus -
As a movement Cubism had consistently stopped short of complete abstraction. Heretics such as Delaunay had painted pure abstractions but in so doing had deserted Cubism.
-- Alfred H. Barr, Jr. -
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 -
Conformists die, but heretics live forever.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
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A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes
-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -
To be a heretic to-day is almost a human obligation.
-- Jane Ellen Harrison -
Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.
-- Jay GriffithsSource : "Don't give climate change heretics an easy ride" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.
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Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.
-- Learned Hand -
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The world is kept alive only by heretics.
-- Yevgeny Zamyatin -
To Arab Sunni Islamists, Iranians are gabrs (Zoroastrians) while Shi'ites, including Arab ones, are rafidis (heretics) who must be “re-converted†or put to death.
-- Amir Taheri