Inquisition Quotes

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The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain. — Tony Benn
When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset… — James Buchan
A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater… — John Foxe
In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic… — Carl Sagan
I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and freedom, must be… — Leyla Zana
The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses. — Michel de Montaigne
As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on… — John William Draper
It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority. Distant as… — James Madison
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America… — Calvin Coolidge
I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were the… — John Joseph Griffin
The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions, including five centuries… — Barbara G. Walker
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in… — George Orwell
Non-believers in the greenhouse scenario are in the position of those long ago who doubted the existence of God ... fortunately for them, the Inquisition… — Marcel Leroux
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed in polygamy; that… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder… — Lord Acton
I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxismâ€¦The greatest crimes… — Saul Alinsky
If you are a white male, you donâ€™t deserve to live.Â You are a cancer, youâ€™re a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive… — Noel Ignatiev
Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition. — Robert Green Ingersoll
In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political… — Arthur Koestler
I believe that the formation of the Chekas was one of the gravest and most impermissible errors that the Bolshevik leaders committed in 1918 when… — Victor Serge

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