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“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

“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

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

— Phyllis Goldstein

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

— Anonymous

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

— Jonathan Kirsch

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

— John Foxe

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

— Edward A. Hudson

“...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

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

— Neil Innes

“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

In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the…

— Carl Sagan

“By its vigilance and by coordinating its efforts throughout the peninsula, it may be argued that the Inquisition checked the seeds of heresy before…

— Henry Kamen