I feel like Galileo going before the Inquisition to explain that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. I hope I have… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
More people died on 9/11, in one day, at the hand of Muslim terrorists than during the Inquisition. — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“in Spain, thus gleaned of all heresy, the Inquisition could still swell its lists of murders to thirty-two thousand!” — John Foxe Copy Share Image
“My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the greatest single innovation of the Spanish Inquisition was to turn heresy from a thought-crime into a blood-crime...” — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. It's no coincidence that most… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual,… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
“Abruptly, with the shock of the Conquest, the sober and puritanical man of the Christian Inquisition encountered, through their violent and upsetting… — Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“pro scienta atque sapienta-Latin- for science and wisdom It's a Darwinian popularity contest. at all times, the question on everyone's mind is,… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It is interesting that liberals don't mind a strong faith at all. When it's their guy with a strong faith - whether… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear... fear and surprise... Our two weapons are fear and… — Monty Python Copy Share Image
I wanted to know how much of conversion was forced - that is, forced in the sense that the Inquisition forced people… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . .… — Florence Luscomb Copy Share Image
“[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has… — Dorothea Singer Copy Share Image
“It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Remembering that only a few years ago men, women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for having expressed in an… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The liberty of man is not safe in the hands of any church. Wherever the Bible and sword are in partnership, man… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“However this may be, it can hardly be doubted that with Justinian’s persecution of non-Christians, heretics, and philosophers (A.D. 529), the dark… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that the Inquisition discouraged free thinking and inhibited change in Spain.” — Edward A. Hudson Copy Share Image
I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish… — Mae West Copy Share Image
“No offense against moral order was too trivial to escape the attention of the Spanish Inquisition.” — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
“It seems the only thing that can rob you of your formidable powers of inquisition is the sight of me without a… — Magic Hunter Caine Copy Share Image
Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“The similarities between the Inquisition interrogation regime and the role of the C.I.A. in the twenty-first century are chilling.” — Melvin A. Goodman Copy Share Image
Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition. — Jules Simon Copy Share Image
We've got jihadists. That doesn't mean that all Muslims are problems with respect to terrorism, but there is something going on here.… — James Woolsey Copy Share Image
A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation,… — John Foxe Copy Share Image
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