Top 18 Inquisitions Quotes
#1. The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#2. There is nothing disastrous in the temporary nature of our ideas. They are always that. But there may very easily be a train of evil in the self-deception which regards them as final. I think God will forgive us our skepticism sooner than our Inquisitions.
Walter Lippmann
#3. I read in the newspaper that the Catholic Church finally decided that it had been theologically improper to try to convert the Jews. Whoops! Sorry for all those inquisitions, crusades, and autos-da-fe. Previous popes were wrong - infallible, perhaps, but wrong.
Alan Dershowitz
#4. The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery that has beset mankind with inquisitions, internecine and civil wars, and other assorted ills.
Dumas Malone
#5. [There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all inquisitions that are concerned with the private life and the political affiliations of the citizens.
Albert Einstein
#7. Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#8. I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I don't think their stories have been told enough.
Amy Smart
#9. Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women, inquisitions, castrating child choir singers, the denial of Santa Claus and the support of fascists in power.
Kaz Cooke
#10. I just need you to be able to tell people I was here and I felt.
Pleasefindthis
#11. He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
Walter Scott
#12. Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon.
"No," Jace said. "Sometimes he sits on the couch and does it.
Cassandra Clare
#14. - Mark my words, Mr Dedalus, he said. England is in the hands of the jews. In all the highest places: her finance, her press.
Anonymous
#15. When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.
Mark Lawrence
#16. I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
Radha Mitchell
#17. [ ... ] the state is not immoral but amoral; half of it exists outside morality
Jacques Barzun
#18. It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how music should be played.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
