Who originated that most
Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system? Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Inquisition
It was like a
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. Elie Wiesel
I hope for an
I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern inquisition of any kind will ever light the fires of fear, coercion, or angry division. Edward Kennedy
Perhaps people need to
Perhaps people need to understand some history here. Rene Descartes, in the late 16th, early 17th century, postulated that body, mind, physicality and spirituality belonged to different realms of reality that didn’t interact. On a positive side, it got the Inquisition off the backs of the intellectuals and they quit burning them at the stake … Read more
There was a discordant
There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had … Read more
Being interviewed is one
Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It’s two steps removed from the Inquisition. Frank Zappa
It is subversive to
It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . . It is subversive for commissions like this to spread hysteria and intimidation throughout the land that Americans are afraid to sign petitions, afraid to read progressive magazines, afraid to make out checks for … Read more
Even when the east
Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The fact that we
The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state – it has saved us from all the misery that has beset mankind with inquisitions, internecine and civil wars, and other assorted ills. Dumas Malone
The investigation of consciousness
The investigation of consciousness has come to be regarded suspiciously by most smart people and by most scientists. That’s a legacy that began with the Inquisition, which considered non-Christian spiritual inquiry as blasphemous. David O. Russell