Crusades Quote by Laurence Sterne

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

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

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

“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

“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

“However this may be, it can hardly be doubted that with Justinian’s persecution of non-Christians, heretics, and philosophers (A.D. 529), the dark ages began.…

— Karl R. Popper

Perhaps people need to understand some history here. Rene Descartes, in the late 16th, early 17th century, postulated that body, mind, physicality and spirituality…

— Edgar Mitchell

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

— Anonymous

I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern inquisition of any kind will ever…

— Edward Kennedy

Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“That sort of thing doesn't happen any more," reiterated Wensley­dale, the rational thinking person. "'Cos we invented Science and all the vicars set fire…

— Neil Gaiman

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

— Neil Innes