Quotes of: Inquisition Keyword

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade

I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all time who he is.

Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952

A fan is like the thighs of a woman: It opens and closes. A good fan opens with a flick of the wrist. It produces its own weather---a breeze not so strong as to muss the hair.

The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade

A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The greatest evil and the greatest good.

The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

Saint Augustine

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

Mason Cooley

The judicial methods used by the Communists in our day are the same as those of the Holy Inquisition. To secure the Reign of Terror, the Communists are as brutal as the Christian Church was during a long period of thirteen hundred years, for the same...

Dignitarian Way - Criticism of Christianity, The Jews and Religion, by Great Authorities

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

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Children will be children, and they're inquisitive. If teenagers want to know what's out there, they'll look, but there are things that aren't for their eyes.

Keeley Hawes

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Thomas Hardy

The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.

Robert Lynd

Gandalf: Of all the inquisitive Hobbits, Peregrin Took, you are the worst.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

{ } . . . had a philosophy that actually works for human betterment, that dares to challenge the superstition, hypocrisy, and sham, which so often have worked for cruelties, inquisitions, wars and massacres. Superstition that stood across the road of...

Ben Lindsey

It is the time to tremendous awakening toward “inquisitiveness” with cross-cultural sharing through technology and inner insights.

Digital Master

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

Rose Schneiderman

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

Thomas Howard

I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I don't think their stories have been told enough.

Amy Smart

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

Frank A. Clark

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

I, Robot

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

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly.

John C. Maxwell