Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition… — Salman Rushdie 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
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
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
When I hear from people that religion doesn't hurt anything, I say really? Well besides wars, the crusades, the inquisitions, 9-11, ethnic… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
There is nothing disastrous in the temporary nature of our ideas. They are always that. But there may very easily be a… — Walter Lippmann 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
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
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
“You know all about love, but that is not enough. You must also learn that hate comes from God as well, that… — Nikos Kazantzakis 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
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition. — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“...more men and women were slaughtered in a couple of weeks of the terror of the atheistic French Revolution than in a… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery… — Dumas Malone Copy Share Image
I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic.… — Galileo Galilei 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
In fact, the answers that religion, as we have come to know it, provides to the question of human worth have played… — Rebecca Goldstein 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 European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
