Quotes About Burning At The Stake

#1. Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

Martha Ostenso

#2. There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.

Kathryn Bigelow

#3. Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake ... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

Tom Clancy

#4. We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.

Catherine Fahringer

#5. I have an awful lot of energy.

Mary Quant

#6. Sometimes I yell, sometimes I raise my voice. I am trying to do it less, because it's not always attractive. It's not always the right thing to do.

Christine Quinn

#7. I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.

Charlaine Harris

#8. Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

Geraldine Brooks

#9. There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.

James Forrestal

#10. When the hanging's done and the embers at the burning stake are grayed and cold, the conquered bodies of martyrs become the unconquerable ideas.

Nelson Peery

#11. Rain cannot pass through the glass, but light can; light cannot travel deep into the caves, but rain can! We all have different abilities! Neither rain is superior to light nor light is superior to rain!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Aldous Huxley

#13. Criminality is now legal. I guess criminal racketeering these days would be like burning little children at the stake or something. That's about what it takes to get anyone to care.

Alex Jones

#14. I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.

Warren Beatty

#15. All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

John Shelby Spong

#16. It would just be like a movie makeover montage, pop music scoring the ugly girl's transformation from bespectacled duckling to cheerleader swan.

Leila Sales

#17. Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

Giordano Bruno

#18. I miss the days of burning your kind at the stake. For generations we have settled for financial ruin and ostracization of your whorish ancestors - but know this, I will personally gut you and put your head on a pike in my parlor.

Heather McVea

#19. But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.

Ira Glass