Books Quote by David Barton

In the 16th and 17th centuries, as many as 60,000 people were executed in Europe as suspected witches. But it would be nice to…

— Max Boot

“[Dan] Brown states that five million women were killed by the Church as witches. In fact, modern research has shown that the witch hunts…

— Michael Coren

The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War…

— Steven Pinker

“Egged on by its revelations, and inspired by the injunction in Exodus 22:18 “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live,” French and German…

— Steven Pinker

“The witch-hunt narrative is now the conventional wisdom about these cases. That view is so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that so widely endorsed…

— Ross Cheit

“Between the first case recorded on 4 March 1918, and the last sometime in March 1920, it killed 50–100 million people, or between 2.5…

— Laura Spinney

“The words witch and witchcraft, in everyday usage for over a thousand years, have undergone several changes of meaning; and today witchcraft, having reverted…

— Rossell Hope Robbins

“The book argues that even though many cases have been held up as classic examples of modern American “witch hunts,” none of them fits…

— Ross Cheit

“The witch-hunt narrative is a really popular story that goes like this: Lots of people were falsely convicted of child sexual abuse in the…

— Ross Cheit

I don't want to act like the witch trials all over New England were warranted, but when you live in a culture that believes…

— Robert Eggers

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual…

— Arthur Miller

“the politics behind witch hunts concerns a new vision of the world, where women who insisted on their rights to value land, to their…

— Raj Patel