Inquisitions Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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[There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all…
— Albert Einstein
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The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of…
— Mel White
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It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . . It is subversive…
— Florence Luscomb
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No other work has more often been blamed for more heinous crimes by the perpetrators of such crimes. The Bible has been named as the…
— Nadine Strossen
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I read in the newspaper that the Catholic Church finally decided that it had been theologically improper to try to convert the Jews. Whoops! Sorry…
— Alan Dershowitz
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When I hear from people that religion doesn't hurt anything, I say really? Well besides wars, the crusades, the inquisitions, 9-11, ethnic cleansing, the suppression…
— Bill Maher
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Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women,…
— Kaz Cooke
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The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery that has beset…
— Dumas Malone
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The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I don't think their…
— Amy Smart
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Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio,…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who Wrote These Inquisitions Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Inquisitions Quotes as follows: