Witches Quotes
161 quotes by 120 authors
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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
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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
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You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.
— Janet Morris
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People fear witches, and burn women.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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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
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I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.
— Martin Luther
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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
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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
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How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!
— Ludwig von Mises
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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
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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
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Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels
— Thom Yorke
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They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not reform itself on…
— S. T. Joshi
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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
Who Wrote These Witches Quotes
120 authors contributed a total of 161 Witches Quotes, led by these top contributors: