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Quotes About Apostates

The Rose-Croix Adepts respected the dominant, hierarchical, and revealed religion. Consequently they could no more be enemies of the Papacy than of legitimate Monarchy; and if they conspired against Popes and Kings, it was because they considered them personally as apostates from duty and supreme favors of anarchy. What, in fact, is a despot, spiritual or temporal, but a crowned anarchist?
~ Albert Pike
Knowledge and wisdom are really the privilege of a faithful Muslim. If you have lost them, get them back even though you may have to get them from the apostates.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.
~ Pope Leo XIII
Atrocities committed in the name of religion are almost always commited against out-group members, or against the most dangerous people of all: apostates (who try to leave the group) and traitors (who undermine the group).
~ Jonathan Haidt
Where did this commandment come from in relation to polygamy? It also came from God... When I see any of our people, men or women, opposing a principle of this kind... I consider them apostates.
~ John Taylor
Evidently it took Catholic school to turn young kids into fearless, hardened apostates.
~ William Finnegan