Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system? — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition. — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.” —Monty Python’s Flying Circus” — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
“No one ever expects vaginal arthritis. (Or the Spanish Inquisition).” — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“The similarities between the Inquisition interrogation regime and the role of the C.I.A. in the twenty-first century are chilling.” — Melvin A. Goodman 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
“It seems the only thing that can rob you of your formidable powers of inquisition is the sight of me without a… — Magic Hunter Caine Copy Share Image
Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition. — Jules Simon Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the greatest single innovation of the Spanish Inquisition was to turn heresy from a thought-crime into a blood-crime...” — Jonathan Kirsch 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
“No offense against moral order was too trivial to escape the attention of the Spanish Inquisition.” — Jonathan Kirsch 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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 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
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
“American foreign policy was a mirror image of Russian foreign policy: whatever the Russians did, we did in reverse. American domestic policies… — Archibald MacLeish 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
“Unable to sleep, I clear the untouched mess left in the wake of the inquisition on my own and am in the… — Michelle Hodkin 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
“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
“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
“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
“However this may be, it can hardly be doubted that with Justinian’s persecution of non-Christians, heretics, and philosophers (A.D. 529), the dark… — Karl R. Popper 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
“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
“The first thing for you to understand is that in this place there are no martyrdoms. You have read of the religious… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But when vague rumours got abroad, that in this Protestant association a secret power was mustering against the government for undefined and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
