Believe Quote by Rebecca West

Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the…

— Lev Shestov

The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity:…

— Juan Gines de Sepulveda

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

The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence, ingenuity, virtue, and humanity…

— Juan Gines de Sepulveda

Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved…

— Learned Hand

“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

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

— G. M. Trevelyan

“Who’s that?” Barney asked. Pedro answered, having returned his attention to his daughter’s suitor. “Father Alonso,” he said. “He’s the new inquisitor.” Carlos, Ebrima,…

— Ken Follett

“Certainly the Andalusians were very ignorant. Few if any of them could read, and they seemed not even to know the one thing that…

— George Orwell

In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull…

— Padma Lakshmi

“Secondly, barbarous as these poor heathens are, they appear to be as capable of knowledge as we are; and in many places, at least,…

— William Carey