The Inquisition Quotes
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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
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
Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.
— Jules Simon
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
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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
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
What is this, the Spanish Inquisition or something?" [Drew Nichols]"Yeah, and you didn't expect it, did you? [John Bell] — Shawn Goodwin
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
We are surrounded by the dry thorns of the Inquisition on all four sides; throwing around words burning like fire is the shortest way to one's grave!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
