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
“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
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
Perhaps people need to understand some history here. Rene Descartes, in the late 16th, early 17th century, postulated that body, mind, physicality… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions,… — Barbara G. Walker 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
“Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious… — Jeffrey Tayler 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
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
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll 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
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
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
In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and… — Mel White Copy Share Image
“To Judaism Christians ascribe the glory of having been the first religion to teach a pure monotheism. But monotheism existed long before… — John E. Remsburg 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
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
The perpetrators of the Inquisition - the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions - were ecclesiastics of one rank or… — Sam Harris 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
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 world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Both defenders and opponents of the Inquisition have often accepted without question the image of an omniscient, omnipotent tribunal whose fingers reached… — Henry Kamen 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
