“That sort of thing doesn't happen any more," reiterated Wensleydale, the rational thinking person. "'Cos we invented Science and all the vicars… — Neil Gaiman 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
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
“What destroys it? Is it the Inquisition? Those idiot priests go chasing after innocent women, as if real witches would let themselves… — Neal Stephenson 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
Is enough to look at the Middle Ages, at the Inquisition and on the ultra religious societies that, through their fanaticism, make… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but… — John Foxe Copy Share Image
“...the workings of the Inquisition did not fundamentally change over its six-hundred-year history. The Inquisition was a machine with interchangeable parts, just… — Jonathan Kirsch 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
“And we know that the period during which the influence of Christian theism was strongest, was the period when the intellectual life… — Chapman Cohen 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
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
After the survivor of the Spanish conquest has told his life's story he is convicted by the Inquisition: He posted no brief… — Gary Jennings 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 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
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
If you compare the United States with Europe, my view is that what happened in Europe is that the church became deeply… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and… — Jeremy Taylor 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
“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
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
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
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 Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of… — Imelda Marcos 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
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
“In 1487 alone, two hundred heretics had-in one of the greatest euphemisms in the history of language-"relaxed," that is, burned at the… — James Reston 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
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
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
“pro scienta atque sapienta-Latin- for science and wisdom It's a Darwinian popularity contest. at all times, the question on everyone's mind is,… — Ned Vizzini 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
“Abruptly, with the shock of the Conquest, the sober and puritanical man of the Christian Inquisition encountered, through their violent and upsetting… — Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio 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
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
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
“King Ferdinand, who was himself partly descended from Jewish stock8 consulted the bishops. The bishops’ solution took even the Old Christians by… — Harry Freedman 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
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
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency!… — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
