Art Quote by Jonathan Kirsch Download Open image ““Interrogation...was the highest art of the inquisitor.”” — Jonathan Kirsch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art
“And no Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Anyone even remotely suspect was interrogated, because interrogation is by far the most effective method of speedily banishing inappropriate thoughts from the mind.” — Olli Jalonen Copy Share Image
Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
“Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Agent Reed returned this morning, ready for another round of what he calls an interview and what I refer to as an interrogation.” — C.J. Roberts Copy Share Image
“It seems to me a work of art is the evidence offered by a fantastically observant witness” — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Once available, the inquisitorial toolbox could be put to use by any authoritarian regime with the will and the means to unpack and use… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“The Inquisitor stared at him. “Your Highness, where is Iolanthe Seabourne?” Right here in this room. He was on guard, very, very much on… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“I network like a Spanish Inquisitor. I am very good at extracting relevant information. And if you resist, you’ll only confirm your heresy.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“If you don’t mind I came for an interrogation. You’re not under arrest, at least not yet; and you do not have to say… — S. A. David Copy Share Image
“No offense against moral order was too trivial to escape the attention of the Spanish Inquisition.” — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Like the victims of the historical Inquisition and its other modern equivalents, the men and women who were targeted during the McCarthy era were… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“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 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 persecutorial impulse - 'the urge to purify the world through the annihilation of some category of human beings as imagined agents of corruption… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“...human beings as a species have never failed to find reasons to regard one another with fear and loathing and thus to offer violence… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Once available, the inquisitorial toolbox could be put to use by any authoritarian regime with the will and the means to unpack and use… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“...free-associative sexual libel...is typical of the impulses of religious authoritarians to demonize all heretics by attributing to them every manner of outrage that a… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“All the weaponry and tactics that have been deployed in the war on terror are justified by precisely the same theological stance once invoked… — Jonathan Kirsch Copy Share Image
“What Hitler and Stalin had in common was the same aspiration that animated the first inquisitors - the simple but deadly notion that it… — 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
“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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
