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That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
— Thomas Howard
Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
The inquisition of public opinion overwhelms in practice the freedom asserted by the laws in theory.
— Thomas Jefferson
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.
— George Orwell
I feel like Galileo going before the Inquisition to explain that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. I hope I have more success.
— Ken Livingstone
I remember the Inquisition, when pain in service to the church was raised to an art form.
— James Rollins
More people died on 9/11, in one day, at the hand of Muslim terrorists than during the Inquisition.
— Robert Jeffress
More men and women were slaughtered in a couple of weeks of the terror of the atheistic French Revolution than in a century of the Inquisition.
— Michael Coren
You think her innocent/ Your little lost girl/ Caped in Inquisition red/ Yet when she leads you hunting Hyde/ Mind don't slay Jekyll in his stead
— Shannon Barnsley
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
— Voltaire
Her hair was pulled back so severely, it would have won approval from the Spanish Inquisition as a method of torture.
— Will Thomas
My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what you may do.
— Voltaire
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
This was interesting knowledge: you could only ask questions in certain rooms. There were rooms for sitting and thinking and rooms for inquisition.
— Matt Haig
Fairest lady," said Candide, "when a man is in love, jealous, and whipped by the Inquisition, he no longer knows what he's doing.
— Voltaire
Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.
— Frank Zappa
The horrors of the Inquisition are nothing compared to the fates your mind can imagine for your loved ones.
— Stephen King
the friend neither sang of grief, nor open his heart to me
he muttled in his inquisition and wasted his life and his dreams — William Graham
he muttled in his inquisition and wasted his life and his dreams — William Graham
The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
— Michel De Montaigne
Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just
— Michela Wrong
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!
— Michael Palin
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
— Tony Benn
What is this, the Spanish Inquisition or something?" [Drew Nichols]
"Yeah, and you didn't expect it, did you? [John Bell] — Shawn Goodwin
"Yeah, and you didn't expect it, did you? [John Bell] — Shawn Goodwin
Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered.
— Raheel Farooq
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
— Thomas Hardy
At the end of the sermon, all the faithful were to come forward and take an oath of allegiance to the Holy Inquisition.
— Jeffrey Gorsky
The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.
— Peter Kreeft
Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.
— Jules Simon
Beautiful maiden," answered Candide, "when a man is in love, is jealous, and has been flogged by the Inquisition, he becomes lost to all reflection.
— Voltaire
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.
— Elie Wiesel
Babies: more like the Spanish Inquisition than you think.
— Cassandra Clare
Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
— Rose Schneiderman