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John (Lord Acton) Acton : There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it. # Heresy

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Ben Hecht : " When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle them to no such sums as they are receiving. As a result their boss soars out of economic into magic significance. He becomes a source of blessings rather than wages. Criticism is sacrilege, doubt is heresy. " # Heresy

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Susan Sontag : " Al forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of what is already known. Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies. " # Heresy

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Elie Wiesel : " The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. " # Heresy

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Elie Wiesel : " Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile. " # Heresy

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Hubert H Humphrey : " The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy -- when properly aged. " # Heresy

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Eric Hoffer : " A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor. " # Heresy

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Gilbert K Chesterton : " A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy. " # Heresy

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Robert G Ingersoll : " Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak. " # Heresy

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Thomas Aquinas : " 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. " # Heresy

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Thomas Hobbes : " Man gives indifferent names to one and the same thing from the difference of their own passions; as they that approve a private opinion call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. " # Heresy

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John (Lord Acton) Acton: " I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they did not wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority." # Power

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John (Lord Acton) Acton: " Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute. Liberty alone demands for its realisation the limitation of the public authority, for liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition." # Happiness

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John (Lord Acton) Acton: " Without presuming to decide the purely legal question, on which it seems evident to me from Madison's and Hamilton's papers that the Fathers of the Constitution were not agreed, I saw in State Rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy. The institutions of your Republic have not exercised on the old world the salutary and liberating influence which ought to have belonged to them, by reason of those defects and abuses of principle which the Confederate Constitution was expressly and wisely calculated to remedy. I believed that the example of that great Reform would have blessed all the races of mankind by establishing true freedom purged of the native dangers and disorders of Republics. Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization; and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo." # Freedom

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John (Lord Acton) Acton: " There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Error." # Selfishness

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John (Lord Acton) Acton: " There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it." # Heresy

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John (Lord Acton) Acton: " Advice to Persons About to Write History — Don't." # Advice

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John (Lord Acton) Acton: " Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being." # Education

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John (Lord Acton) Acton: " The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks." # Conflict

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