Stake Burning Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

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

Charlaine Harris

#5. 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

#6. I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling.

Woody Harrelson

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

Geraldine Brooks

#8. My expectations of what I wanted in a man I learned from a dog: loyalty and kindness.

Alice Hoffman

#9. Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.

Archilochus

#10. Let love be your style.

Debasish Mridha

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Giordano Bruno

#17. 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

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

Ira Glass