Re: Quotes on the Spanish Inquisition
"The Inquisition was, contrary to what is widely believed today, a popular institution... The feeling of "being in good hands", that the King on the one hand, and the Church on the other, veiled for them, was common among the people of that time and, in consequence, the restrictions were considered as necessary."
Fernando Díaz-Plaja, Otra Historia de España, Plaza-Janés, 1972
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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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