Salem Witch Quotes

To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else…

— H. P. Lovecraft

That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not…

— Neal Stephenson

Basically, I was always disappointed that the witches weren't real when we learned about the Salem witch trials.

— Robert Eggers

“Since the Devil represented criminality, and since criminals in New England were said to be the Devil’s operatives, the Salem witch hunt…

— Ibram X. Kendi

With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day…

— Joel Miller

My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So does the…

— Stacy Schiff

If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and…

— Jane Smiley

Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The…

— Rob Zombie

I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our…

— George Clooney

- L, did you know we’re reenacting the Salem witch trials in English tomorrow? - Haven’t been memorizing your case file? Do…

— Kami Garcia

My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those…

— Mark Twain

There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples…

— Sarah Vowell

Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters. That to me…

— Neal Stephenson

“First, some clarification of misunderstood aspects of the ‘Salem witchcraft.’ Salem was the seat of Essex County, and thus, the location of…

— Howard Kaepplein

In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory…

— Arthur Miller

“What exists beneath the sea? I’d always pictured it in colors of emerald and aquamarine, where black velvet fish with sequined eyes…

— Kelly Easton

“These social media shamings bear an uncanny resemblance to medieval witch hunts.” If you were accused of being a witch back then,…

— Oliver Markus Malloy

“Your Alex.He's selfish too.He could have left you alone, but he didn't. The difference is he's always known the consequences." "And what…

— Tara A. Fuller

“Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh have promised to continue to fund efforts to prove the convicted men’s innocence, including more scientific “evidence…

— Damien Echols

“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart…

— John F. Kennedy

“Sometime the witch hunting takes on atrocious dimensions — the Nazi persecution of Jews, the Salem witch trials, the Ku Klux Klan…

— Ken Wilber