Quotes Tagged With :inquisition

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor....

If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples,....

As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw....

Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the....

My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's....

Fear breeds a desire for simplicity. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Chains of command.

This was the end of the Renaissance. Culture, once beloved and fostered by the papacy, opened the way....

It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing....

The judicial methods used by the Communists in our day are the same as those of the Holy Inquisition.....

Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out....