Quotes About Inquisition

The motto of the Spanish Inquisition." "Well, fuck me," said Seawoll. "I wasn't expecting them.

Exurge domine et judica causum tuam," said Nightingale. " 'Arise, O God, judge thy own cause.' " "Psalm 73," said Postmartin. "The motto of the Spanish Inquisition." "Well, fuck me," said Seawoll. "I wasn't expecting them.

mosquitoing around me, peppering me with pointless questions

As long as there is a Church, there will be little Torquemadas

The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in Europe. The Inquisition, the persecution of heretics and infidels and witches, they racked up pretty high death tolls.

The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been freely given; the fact that the torture would have started again if they hadn't confessed was a minor detail.

This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.

the economist John Bell Condliffe, saw what was happening, and warned presciently in 1938: 'We face a new and more formidable superstition than the world has ever known: the myth of the nation-state, whose priests are as intolerant as those of the Inquisition.' Condliffe saw autocratic power as the cause of, not the solution to, poverty. Much

The significance test is the detective, not the judge.

Risolse che, certo, l'inquisizione andava condannata e senza scampo, ma a una precisa condizione: che a condannarla fossero i cristiani, non gli altri.

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That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.

The opinions which are still persecuted strike the majority as so monstrous and immoral that the general principle of toleration cannot be held to apply to them. But this is exactly the same view as that which made possible the tortures of the Inquisition.

The first of these rules out the Inquisition; the second rules out such methods as those of British war propaganda, which Hitler praises on the ground that propaganda "must sink its mental elevation deeper in proportion to the numbers of the mass whom it has to grip".

Por esa época, José Cadalso Vásquez escribe: <>. Se refiere, por supuesto, a la vigilancia impuesta por la Santa Inquisición sobre el intelecto — y la sexualidad—de los españoles — y también de los americanos—

Habrá hombre de sangre tan fría que no brame de ira al ver entrar a un ignorante ministro el tribunal que en tono despótico manda abrir los estantes, registra los libros que con tanto afán y gastos se han adquirido, y los lleva a podrirse amontonados en una sala del al Inquisición, con miles otros que han tenido la misma suerte?

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

y por eso todos los inquisidores del mundo queman los libros en vano, porque cuando un libro comunica algo válido, su ritmo silencioso persiste incluso mientras lo devoran las llamas, y es que un verdadero libro siempre indica algún camino nuevo que conduce más allá de sí mismo.

Damn son, where'd you find this?

I like to push people till I get the truth out of them. Get them drunk, or whatever. Then discover what they really think. Push them and push them and push them.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

I've always loved investigations.

To understand fully the causes which drove so many thousands into schism and heresy, leading to wars and persecutions, and the establishment of the Inquisition, it is necessary{6} to cast a glance at the character of the men who represented the Church before the people, and at the use which they made, for good or for evil, of the absolute spiritual despotism which had become established. In