Inquisition Quote by Neil Innes Download Open image “No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!” — Neil Innes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inquisition Spanish Spanish inquisition
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among… — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.” —Monty Python’s Flying Circus” — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“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
“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
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 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
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
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
But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him. — Neil Innes Copy Share Image
As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took… — Neil Innes Copy Share Image
Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder. — Neil Innes Copy Share Image
I suppose Roger [Ruskin Spear] had the license to do anything that fitted the venue. — Neil Innes Copy Share Image
In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think. — Neil Innes Copy Share Image
I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually… — Neil Innes Copy Share Image
But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles. — Neil Innes Copy Share Image
It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get… — Neil Innes Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method… — John Foxe Copy Share Image
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
After the survivor of the Spanish conquest has told his life's story he is convicted by the Inquisition: He posted no brief in defense… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. It's no coincidence that most of my… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
If you compare the United States with Europe, my view is that what happened in Europe is that the church became deeply distrusted by… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
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