Inquisition Quotes
- 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