Inquisition Quotes

• Sit peacefully in a church and think of church history: witchburning perhaps, or child abuse, genocide, the amassing of disgusting wealth, the repression of women, inquisitions, castrating child choir singers, the denial of Santa Claus and the support of fascists in power.

  

  Kaz Cooke
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Support

• No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Spanish
  • Expects
  • Inquisition

• The important question to ask is why these bodies are allowed to exist. If a country such as Spain allowed a repressive body like the Inquisition to exist for four hundred years, it is not because the Inquisition forced itself on the Spanish nation. It is because the Spaniards allowed it to exist.

  

  Cullen Murphy
  • Exist
  • Allowed
  • Spain

• I was born on April 1, 1933, in Constantine, Algeria, which was then part of France. My family, originally from Tangier, settled in Tunisia and then in Algeria in the 16th century after having fled Spain during the Inquisition.

  

  Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
  • Family
  • France
  • April

• Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Way
  • Knows
  • Monsters

• Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?

  

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
  • Inquisition
  • Originated