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
“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 number of innocents killed by Leftist movements dwarfs the numbers killed by any other movement in a comparable period of time… — Dennis Prager 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
“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
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
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
I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini,… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades,… — Wole Soyinka 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
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
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
“That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split… — Hans Urs von Balthasar 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
“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
“In 1231, Pope Gregory ordered the Dominicans to take charge of papal courts and decisions and so prevent mob rule and guarantee… — Michael Coren 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 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
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
“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
“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
The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
