Quotes About Witch Burning

#1. Future generations of economists will look at the trickle-down theory in much the same way we now look at witch burning, slavery, and the Sinclair C5.

John Niven

#2. Who are taking to the witch burning Saturday night?

Stan Freberg

#3. Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless - discuss.

J.K. Rowling

#4. We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.

Terry Jones

#5. This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. It's going to be painful."
"It's a fun tradition."
"So was witch-burning," Melody said. "Unless you were the witch.

Brandon Sanderson

#7. Unlike, say, witch-burning, slavery, and apartheid, which were once taken for granted and are now officially outlawed, war is still with us.

Adam Hochschild

#8. Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?

Charlie Jane Anders

#9. As American society grows more elitist, it produces a worse caliber of elites. The

Christopher L. Hayes

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

Terry Pratchett

#11. 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

#12. The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

William Hague

#13. I didn't actually think you were hanging out at Hex Hall because of your burning love for me. But that's what I'm telling all the girls back at school," I said, stabbing a forkful of eggs. "I'm thinking 'heartbreaker' might be a nice addition to my 'avenging witch' reputation.

Rachel Hawkins

#14. [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

#15. I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

Elie Wiesel

#16. I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.

Mike Birbiglia

#17. Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that.

Thomas Sowell

#18. I cannot say for certain that God does not exist; I think the worst thing that can be said about him is that he's a bit of an underachiever.

Woody Allen

#19. And even though it didn't work, it did sort of work, because when we're all together, it's like Skippy's there too, because each of us has his own little jigsaw piece of him he remembers, and when you fit them all together, and you make the whole picture, then it's like he comes to life.

Paul Murray

#20. Flesh is heretic.
My body is a witch.
I am burning it.

Eavan Boland

#21. the knowledge of all things is possible," as Leonardo da Vinci once stated.

James Morcan

#22. I don't like dressing up, and I don't like putting on make-up or doing the red carpet. The only red carpet events I go to are if I'm supporting a friend.

Gina Bellman

#23. The horizon was frosted with a greenish smear, as if ranks of campfires from distant tribes had divined the news already and were burning an homage to Elphaba before the sun could set on the day of her death.
He could smell her in the collar of the cape, and he wept for the first time.

Gregory Maguire

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

Dejan Stojanovic

#25. It would be nice if you considered dating Haley. She's such a nice woman.

R.L. Mathewson