The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
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.
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes
Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.
What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.
Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.
Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.
The world is kept alive only by heretics.
If liberalism is to mean anything at all, it is duty bound to support without hesitation the dissenting individual over the group, the heretic over the orthodox, innovation over stagnation, and free speech over offense.
Thieves, Heretics, and Whores