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«One of the conditions (for escaping the stake during Inquisition in Spain) was that of stating all they knew of other heretics and apostates, which proved an exceedingly fruitful source of information as, under the general terror, there was little he»
Author: Henry Charles Lea
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apostate, apostates, inquisition, Spain, stating, the Inquisition
«The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America and the introduction of African slaves in their place»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Christianity,
War
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African, Africans, America, butcheries, butchery, Christianity, crusade, crusades, crusading, extermination, exterminations, fruits, inquisitions, introduction, introductions, Introduction to, Natives, religious, religious war, slaves, The Crusades, the Inquisition, wars
«Having been admonished by this Holy Office [the Inquisition] entirely to abandon the false opinion that the Sun was the center of the universe and immovable, and that the Earth was not the center of the same and that it moved... I abjure with a since»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
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abjure, abjured, admonish, admonished, admonishing, center of the universe, immovable, inquisition, inquisitions, the Inquisition
«Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.»
Author: Jeremy Taylor
(Bishop, Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
enclose, enclosed, fairer, inquisitions, pleasure principle, ravish, refused, the Inquisition
«NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.»
Author: Monty Python
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chief, come in, devotion, efficiency, elements, expects, fanatical, Four elements, inquisition, inquisitions, pope, popes, Pope I, ruthless, Spanish, Spanish Inquisition, surprise, the Inquisition, the pope, The Popes, weapon, weaponry, weapons, with efficiency
«Science built the Academy, superstition the inquisition»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
academies, academy, Academy A, built, inquisition, inquisitions, superstition, The academy, the Inquisition
«If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Physics,
Science
| Keywords:
Galileo, inquisition, inquisitions, the Inquisition, verse
«If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; / Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; / And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; / Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.»
Author: Bible
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controversy, diligent, falsely, false witness, his brother, inquisition, inquisitions, rise up, testified, testifies, testify, the Inquisition, witness stand
«And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.»
«If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, then and only then will truth, prevail over fanaticism»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Fanaticism,
Freedom,
Hell,
Law and lawyers,
Religion
| Keywords:
by law, fanaticism, freedom of religion, guaranteed, inquisition, inquisitions, in practice, in theory, overbear, overbearing, overborne, practice of law, prevail, public opinion, the Inquisition
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