Inquisition Quotes

55 quotes by 50 authors

There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a… — Edgar Allan Poe
I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings,… — Jean Cocteau
All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being… — Voltaire
Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed… — Kurt Vonnegut
From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics--the name of Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles. Since… — Dan Brown
Anyway, my office is small - one room, but on the corner, with a couple of windows. The sign on the door reads, simply, HARRY… — Jim Butcher
A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times;… — John Gresham Machen
It was a perfectly normal gerbil. It appeared to be living in an exciting construction of cylinders, spheres and treadmills, such as the Spanish Inquisition… — Neil Gaiman
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual freedom, a battle… — Salman Rushdie
You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the… — Bertrand Russell
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history. — Thomas Howard
In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the… — Jack Schwartz
The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. — Rose Schneiderman
Is enough to look at the Middle Ages, at the Inquisition and on the ultra religious societies that, through their fanaticism, make an enemy of… — Sorin Cerin

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