Quote by Melvin A. Goodman

“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 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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— John Foxe

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

— Jonathan Kirsch

“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

“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

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

“King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella created the Spanish Inquisition in 1480 primarily to deal with rumors of Judaizing by conversos.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

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

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“the inquisitors of yesteryear knew only too well, as do the country snatchers of today: torture is useless for protecting people. It is only…

— Eduardo Galeano