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 Copy Share Image
“First, some clarification of misunderstood aspects of the ‘Salem witchcraft.’ Salem was the seat of Essex County, and thus, the location of… — Howard Kaepplein Copy Share Image
“Sometime the witch hunting takes on atrocious dimensions — the Nazi persecution of Jews, the Salem witch trials, the Ku Klux Klan… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
That to me is the basic message of events like the rise of Nazism, the Salem witch trials, and so on: not… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
In his play depicting the Salem Witch Trials, the author illustrates profound psychological bullying. The ringleader of young girls suspected of unsavory… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters. That to me… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
- L, did you know we’re reenacting the Salem witch trials in English tomorrow? - Haven’t been memorizing your case file? Do… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Basically, I was always disappointed that the witches weren't real when we learned about the Salem witch trials. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
To me there is nothing more fraught with mystery & terror than a remote Massachusetts farmhouse against a lonely hill. Where else… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
