Witches Quotes

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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech… — Louis D. Brandeis
Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized… — Carl Sagan
You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear. — Janet Morris
People fear witches, and burn women. — Louis D. Brandeis
When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then… — Elbert Hubbard
I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all. — Martin Luther
O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all… — Arthur Rimbaud
The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and… — Mark Twain
How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department! — Ludwig von Mises
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with… — Adrienne Rich
The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been… — Starhawk
Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels — Thom Yorke
They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is… — Philip Pullman
People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning… — Neil Gaiman
My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were… — Mark Twain
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
The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the "little ice age"...In… — Emily Oster
The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not reform itself on… — S. T. Joshi
I think we ought to close Halloween down. Do you want your children to dress up as witches? The Druids used to dress up like… — Pat Robertson

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