Quotes About Burning Witches

#1. The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.

Terry Pratchett

#2. People will have their excitements, and a good rousing persecution used to stir things like the burning of Chicago or a Presidential election in our day.

E.P. Roe

#3. There is no craftsman who has acquired full mastery

Ptahhotep

#4. Seek His face and not His hand.

Joyce Meyer

#5. Of course I've got one--a man can't live without a moral code. Mine is that I'm against the burning of witches. Whenever they burn a witch I get all hot under the collar.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Charlaine Harris

#8. [H]as it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?
[1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor' (Columbia University / The New York Times, December 12, 1991)]

Salman Rushdie

#9. For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair" ... And has it really been so long since religions persecuted people, burning them as heretics, drowning them as witches, that you can't recognize religious persecution when you see it?

Salman Rushdie

#10. I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don't know, they don't understand how agonizing their complacent dullness is. Like ants and August sun on a wound. - Carol Kennicott

Sinclair Lewis

#11. I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.

David Duchovny

#12. We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.

Shakti Gawain

#13. Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts
but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message.

Joseph Campbell

#14. I believe what Jesus said, but Jesus never said priests couldn't be fools.

Jean-Luc Godard

#15. I think Comedy Central and probably all channels are on their way toward being apps accessible on whatever the Roku of the future is.

Andy Daly

#16. He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

Voltaire

#17. Sex fills a few hours of our lives yet those precious minutes count for more than months and years

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#18. Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ's body.

Dejan Stojanovic

#19. We are told that if you are not occupied with the mind all the time, then you will invite the devil. It is such a heightened misconception that people are going crazy just because of this. An empty mind is not the devil's home but an empty mind is the home of the Buddha.

Anandmurti Gurumaa

#20. The English, by and large, being a crass and indolent race, were not as keen on burning women as other countries in Europe.

Terry Pratchett