Re: Quotes on the Spanish Inquisition
"Since 1459 Catalonia had her own Inquisition, established by demand of the chancellors of Barcelona, who were worried about the infiltration of judaicing elements in the city...
The Inquisition was then transformed into a permanent organism which insists in directing the Spanish mentality and the conscience through a road of pure orthodoxy. Whichever positive or negative effects can be derived from that is something that is not for an historian to say."
Luis Suárez Fernández, Historia de España, tomo XVII, vol. II, Espasa-Calpe, 1969
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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