Inquisition Quotes
55 quotes by 50 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder…
— Lord Acton
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I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism…The greatest crimes…
— Saul Alinsky
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If you are a white male, you don’t deserve to live. You are a cancer, you’re a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive…
— Noel Ignatiev
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Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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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
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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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