Inquisition Quotes

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After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he replied, `Still, the… — Junichiro Koizumi
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the… — Mae West
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is… — John Foxe
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of… — Mark Twain
And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition,… — Barack Obama
This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to… — Camille Paglia
War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a… — Guy de Maupassant
Throughout all the pain of enslavement and despotism, of inquisition, forced conversion, and massacre, the Jewish people has carried in its heart the yearning for… — Berl Katznelson
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the… — Thomas Szasz
People were always asking for good sound proofs; doubt springs eternal in the human breast, even in countries where the Inquisition can read your very… — Thornton Wilder
If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then… — Thomas Jefferson
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy
The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is… — Imelda Marcos
The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in… — Steven Pinker
There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that… — Salman Rushdie
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our… — Graham Chapman
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. — Elie Wiesel
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition... — Graham Chapman
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself. — Voltaire

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