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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… — Tony Benn
• When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the… — James Buchan
• A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation,… — John Foxe
• In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished… — Carl Sagan
• I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and… — Leyla Zana
• The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best… — 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… — 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… — James Madison
• We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The… — Calvin Coolidge
• I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said… — 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,… — 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… — George Orwell

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