...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.
- Jorge Luis BorgesIt is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
- Robert A. HeinleinHeresy is another word for freedom of thought.
- Graham GreeneA virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian
- Benjamin FranklinThere are no heresies in a dead religion
- Andre SuaresHeresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin
- Robert Green IngersollHeresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak
- Robert Green IngersollIndeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.
- TertullianThey that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion
- Thomas Hobbes