Ancient Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“Now, sorcery rules the world. Of course, most don't call it sorcery; indeed, many would be horrified by such a notion. Instead, they use…

— H.M. Forester

It's too bad that the idea of witchcraft and sorcery is a taboo subject matter.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

“The words witch and witchcraft, in everyday usage for over a thousand years, have undergone several changes of meaning; and today witchcraft, having reverted…

— Rossell Hope Robbins

Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.

— Suetonius

Once she exclaimed, "But I always thought that sorceresses were evil!" "What do you mean 'evil'?" Lynet has never considered the question. "You know,"…

— Gerald Morris

“Once you start rummaging around in the realm of the unverifiable there is considerable room for creativity, and accusations of sorcery are often blended…

— Steven Pinker

To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in…

— William Blackstone

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries.

— Paul Harris

The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art [witchcraft], which…

— Edward Gibbon

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore…

— Francois Fenelon

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the…

— Lev Shestov

“But as records of courts of justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a…

— Ambrose Bierce