Thomas Hobbes Quotes

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy, and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

A heretic can be tolerated. But a heresy cannot.

In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

When one loves God better than the Church is one called a heretic?

For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

I'm against organised religion of any kind.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

One person's religion is another person's cult.

Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally.

No religion can be built on force.

He who departs from consensus is not an infidel.

All that impugn a received religion or superstition are, by the adverse part, branded with the name of atheists.

There would never have been an infidel had there never been a priest.

Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry

Theology is Classified Superstition.

As belief is a passion of the mind, no degree of criminality is attachable to disbelief.