Freedom Quote by Jonathan Kirsch

“...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

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

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

— Jonathan Kirsch

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

— Edward A. Hudson

“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

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

— John Foxe

“The inquisition of public opinion overwhelms in practice the freedom asserted by the laws in theory.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“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

“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

“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

“For every heretic it burned at the stake, thousands of others rose up. Why was that? Because the Inquisition kills its enemies in the…

— George Orwell

“The first thing for you to understand is that in this place there are no martyrdoms. You have read of the religious persecutions of…

— George Orwell