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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
Tony Benn
The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
Rose Schneiderman
A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.
John Foxe
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy 
60% of people like this quote
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
Tony Benn
56% of people like this quote
The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
Rose Schneiderman
53% of people like this quote
A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater his wealth the greater his danger.
John Foxe
47% of people like this quote
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
46% of people like this quote
In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
Jack Schwartz
46% of people like this quote
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