Crime Quote by Sarah Bakewell

“What is abundantly clear is that witch hunts did not begin with witches, and are thus not avoided by making ourselves harmless or integrating…

— Peter Grey

“The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measures to be clasped within the purview…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

“Robert was found guilty of her murder, condemned to death and ‘chased out of the realm of France’ as Froissart puts it; there were…

— Desmond Seward

“The book argues that even though many cases have been held up as classic examples of modern American “witch hunts,” none of them fits…

— Ross Cheit

The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but…

— Jonathan Kozol

Dealing with crime using archaic methods has become impossible. So, it's imperative that we change the ways to counter them.

— Nana Patekar

“Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General (1645 – 1647) by Stewart Stafford ‘Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live’ – Exodus, Nor allow legalised killing…

— Stewart Stafford

In the 16th and 17th centuries, as many as 60,000 people were executed in Europe as suspected witches. But it would be nice to…

— Max Boot

“The witch-hunt narrative is now the conventional wisdom about these cases. That view is so widely endorsed and firmly entrenched that so widely endorsed…

— Ross Cheit

“The verdict of this court is that the accused are guilty of witchcraft. The maximum penalty the law allows is to be burned to…

— Richard Curtis

“In that treatise Mather wrote his famous formulation: It were better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be…

— John E. Douglas

“The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as…

— Gil Bailie