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
It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish… — Guenter Lewy Copy Share Image
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency!… — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the… — Kaz Cooke Copy Share Image
Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Is enough to look at the Middle Ages, at the Inquisition and on the ultra religious societies that, through their fanaticism, make… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“What destroys it? Is it the Inquisition? Those idiot priests go chasing after innocent women, as if real witches would let themselves… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict… — John William Draper 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
“Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained,… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
No other work has more often been blamed for more heinous crimes by the perpetrators of such crimes. The Bible has been… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
“The Eugenic optimism seems to partake generally of the nature of that dazzled and confused confidence, so common in private theatricals, that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“By its vigilance and by coordinating its efforts throughout the peninsula, it may be argued that the Inquisition checked the seeds of… — Henry Kamen Copy Share Image
“And we know that the period during which the influence of Christian theism was strongest, was the period when the intellectual life… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Non-believers in the greenhouse scenario are in the position of those long ago who doubted the existence of God ... fortunately for… — Marcel Leroux Copy Share Image
It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but… — John Foxe Copy Share Image
Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
People were always asking for good sound proofs; doubt springs eternal in the human breast, even in countries where the Inquisition can… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
If you compare the United States with Europe, my view is that what happened in Europe is that the church became deeply… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
“The important question to ask is why these bodies are allowed to exist. If a country such as Spain allowed a repressive… — Cullen Murphy Copy Share Image
“There are today many Communists in America. They are everywhere -- in factories, offices, butcher stores, on street corners, in private businesses.… — J. Howard McGrath Copy Share Image
And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I read in the newspaper that the Catholic Church finally decided that it had been theologically improper to try to convert the… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades,… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern inquisition of any kind… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Oh, the truth, oh yeah, lot of trouble that got us into, didn't it, over the last maybe thousand years? Hitler knew… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
