Quotes About Witch Hunts

#1. Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged investigations, the questioning of friends and co-workers, the searches of barracks for magazines and letters, the witch hunts.

Anna Quindlen

#2. It's getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington - witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over who is ideologically pure and who is apostate. It's a real set of carnival sideshows.

Andrew Rosenthal

#3. Humans did not want to know about non-humans. Funny thing was most non-humans felt the same way, happy to hide their abilities and talents to avoid witch hunts and wholesale slaughter.

Mary Buckham

#4. We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny ... The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.

E.B. White

#5. When a small group of people come together to relive the Salem witch hunts, God cries. For if anything is sorrowful to God, it is evil done in his name. When you find out you were not given the truth, how will you live with yourself?

Shannon L. Alder

#6. We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today.

Thomas Szasz

#7. Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.

Joni Mitchell

#8. Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil.

Arthur Miller

#9. It is a natural human instinct to turn our fears into symbols, and destroy the symbols, in the hope that it will destroy the fear. It is a logic that keeps recurring throughout human history, from the Crusades to the witch hunts to the present day.

Johann Hari

#10. Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

Desi Arnaz

#11. It's funny how everyone hates witch hunts ... until they see a witch.

Jon Stewart

#12. Witches have their share of nasty legends to contend with, I said, thinking of the witch-hunts and the executions that followed.

Deborah Harkness

#13. The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind, and have been since the secular authorities stopped enforcing the local bishop's decrees of anathema.

Jerry Pournelle

#14. I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

John Le Carre

#15. He (former President Gerald Ford) made it very clear that he did not agree with the reasons President Bush laid out for the war, namely the belief that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or that there was some obligation that the United States or the president had to expand democracy.

Bob Woodward

#16. Speak what is in your mind,' Pandit Baba commanded. What insolence, Ahmed thought. There are two categories of things in my mind, he should say, the stuff people like you have fed into it and my own reactions to that stuff. The result is cancellation, so I have nothing in my mind.

Paul Scott

#17. [T]he witch appears to have alternated between being a terrifying enemy who could bring ruin and death and a pathetic figure to be despised and insulted.

Robin Briggs

#18. If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.

Ted Nugent

#19. [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

#20. I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

Oscar Levant

#21. Music scores your life. You interact with it. You listen to it in the car. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.

Chris Milk

#22. Don't feel shy - kiss. Kiss just to feel the joy of life and to get lost in the beauty of love.

Debasish Mridha

#23. It is one thing to believe in witches, and quite another to believe in witch-smellers.

G.K. Chesterton

#24. Living true to your ideal self may seem impossible but if you work hard on it, you can see it is achievable.

Auliq Ice

#25. We must hide our tears from the One who sends them, from the One who has shed tears Himself and continues to shed them every day because of mans' ingratitude.

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#26. They had set forth to rid their town of evil and had managed to rid it of pleasure as well.

Angel Cox

#27. Mt. Everest of Earth is 8.8 km tall; Mt. Olympus of Mars is 22 km tall. Every time you see a giant, you must know that that giant might be just a dwarf somewhere else!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#28. Brought before HCUA, Miller was chastised for the suggestion that Congressional investigations might have something in common with witch trials; he replied, "The comparison is inevitable, sir." Thomas was shortly afterwards thrown in jail for fraud.

Carl Sagan

#29. Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Walter Kirn

#30. Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they?

John Malkovich

#31. At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#32. The theologian Meric Casaubon argued - in his 1668 book, Of Credulity and Incredulity - that witches must exist because, after all, everyone believes in them. Anything that a large number of people believe must be true.

Carl Sagan

#33. The spirits made her sick, and I don't just mean the Scotch.

Lenora Henson

#34. I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists.

Rashid Johnson

#35. When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder.

Shannon L. Alder

#36. It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

Max Barry