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
Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. It's no coincidence that most… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair 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
“You Catholics. No wonder you invented the Inquisition and set science back 500 years. We’d probably have light sabres and flying cars… — Craig McLay 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
The perpetrators of the Inquisition - the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions - were ecclesiastics of one rank or… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Precisely because the Inquisition provides a blueprint for building and operating the machinery of persecution...the Inquisition was and still is a danger… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern inquisition of any kind… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said… — John Joseph Griffin 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
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
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
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
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
“For every heretic it burned at the stake, thousands of others rose up. Why was that? Because the Inquisition kills its enemies… — George Orwell 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
Oh, the truth, oh yeah, lot of trouble that got us into, didn't it, over the last maybe thousand years? Hitler knew… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Black_Venus: Here it goes: Curious mosaic Continental drift Parabolic metaphor Elemental rift Time and transposition Conscious intermission Assertion? Desertion -- Black_Venus: That's… — Julie Anne Peters 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
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
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
It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish… — Guenter Lewy 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
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The… — Calvin Coolidge 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 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
