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

- Alexander Jablokov

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.

- Alfred Chan

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

- Thomas Hardy

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Thomas Hardy