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“...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

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

— Jonathan Kirsch

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

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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

— John Foxe

The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

— Anonymous

“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

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

— Neil Innes

“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

There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“We sometimes hear of the cruelties of the Inquisition, of the barbarity of the Irish, of the tyranny of priestcraft; but such cruelties, barbarities,…

— Mary Frances Cusack