Inquisition Quote by Connie Willis

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

— Neil Innes

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

— Anonymous

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

— John Foxe

“Indeed, the greatest single innovation of the Spanish Inquisition was to turn heresy from a thought-crime into a blood-crime...”

— Jonathan Kirsch

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among…

— Graham Chapman

“King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella created the Spanish Inquisition in 1480 primarily to deal with rumors of Judaizing by conversos.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“Precisely because the Inquisition provides a blueprint for building and operating the machinery of persecution...the Inquisition was and still is a danger to human…

— Jonathan Kirsch

“Both defenders and opponents of the Inquisition have often accepted without question the image of an omniscient, omnipotent tribunal whose fingers reached into every…

— Henry Kamen

“The similarities between the Inquisition interrogation regime and the role of the C.I.A. in the twenty-first century are chilling.”

— Melvin A. Goodman

“...the workings of the Inquisition did not fundamentally change over its six-hundred-year history. The Inquisition was a machine with interchangeable parts, just as its…

— Jonathan Kirsch

“That sort of thing doesn't happen any more," reiterated Wensley­dale, the rational thinking person. "'Cos we invented Science and all the vicars set fire…

— Neil Gaiman

“Above all, we cannot and should not try to distance ourselves from any of these inquisitions by reassuring ourselves that no abuse of 'moral…

— Jonathan Kirsch