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
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
When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition. I'm trying always to leave out what I think… — Lynne Tillman 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
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history. — Thomas Howard Copy Share Image
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the… — Ouida Copy Share Image
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
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
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
After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he… — Junichiro Koizumi Copy Share Image
[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have -… — Anthony Hopkins 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
It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . .… — Florence Luscomb Copy Share Image
I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“How had it come about that these particular designs were chosen as our letters? Who decreed what sound would accompany each shape?… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition. — Jules Simon Copy Share Image
Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system? — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
The investigation of consciousness has come to be regarded suspiciously by most smart people and by most scientists. That's a legacy that… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Contemporaries only know the authority figures and the loudmouths. And the people born into power. But it takes perspective to know who's… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Throughout all the pain of enslavement and despotism, of inquisition, forced conversion, and massacre, the Jewish people has carried in its heart… — Berl Katznelson Copy Share Image
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