Free thought Quote by Christopher Lascelles

“There is no doubt that the Inquisition discouraged free thinking and inhibited change in Spain.”

— Edward A. Hudson

“The seizure of the church and other lands and the closing of Catholic schools were among the developments that deeply disturbed many Spaniards on…

— Geoffrey Jensen

“If you want to expel religion from our European civilization, you can only do it by means of another system of doctrines; and such…

— Sigmund Freud

Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size of cathedrals…

— Paul Blanshard

And I say that Your Highnesses ought not to consent that any foreigner does business or sets foot here, except Christian Catholics since this…

— Christopher Columbus

“in Spain, thus gleaned of all heresy, the Inquisition could still swell its lists of murders to thirty-two thousand!”

— John Foxe

Catholic education aims not only to communicate facts but also to transmit a coherent, comprehensive vision of life, in the conviction that the truths…

— Pope John Paul II

“Differences between Catholic and Protestant countries did not incite rivalries between European states, or cause the growing sense of national identity and, sometimes, isolationism…

— Fiona MacDonald

“And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that are the…

— W. Somerset Maugham

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint…

— Charles Tupper

“Yet in the most mean, cowardly, hypocritical way the British ruling class did all they could to hand Spain over to Franco and the…

— George Orwell

Spain and southern Italy, in which Catholicism has most deeply implanted its roots, are even now, probably beyond all other countries in Europe, those…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky