Condolences Quote by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Download Open image “Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?” — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Condolences Exquisite Inquisition
“King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella created the Spanish Inquisition in 1480 primarily to deal with rumors of Judaizing by conversos.” — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The first thing for you to understand is that in this place there are no martyrdoms. You have read of the religious persecutions of the past. In the Middle Ages there was the Inquisition. It was a failure. It set out to eradicate heresy, and ended by perpetuating it. For every heretic it burned at the stake, thousands of others… — George Orwell Copy Share
“in Spain, thus gleaned of all heresy, the Inquisition could still swell its lists of murders to thirty-two thousand!” — John Foxe Copy Share Image
As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the greatest single innovation of the Spanish Inquisition was to turn heresy from a thought-crime into a blood-crime...” — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish the moral… — Guenter Lewy Copy Share Image
The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Next to the love between man and his Creator, The love of one man and one woman, Is the loftiest and the most illusive… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so,… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age… sympathy as a fine art is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
“He blinked. His eyes fell as he processed her response. Then he lifted his chin and attempted a grin that was almost painfully dejected.… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
“Ningependa kujitokeza leo kutoa salamu zangu za rambirambi kwa Watu wa Musoma; kutokana na ajali mbaya ya mabasi ya J4 Express, Mwanza Coach, na… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I extend my condolences to those who have lost a loved one by saying, Good mourning. — Rudy Espinoza Copy Share Image
We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy. — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We completely condemn this very dangerous attack, and I convey my condolences to the American people, to the American president and to the American… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
Sad to hear news about Michael Weiner, deepest condolences to his loved ones. His sacrifices as head of players union will not be forgotten. — Jose Bautista Copy Share Image
I got off a plane today at the airbase and I met a whole bunch of military folks there waiting to see me, they… — Beau Biden Copy Share Image
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