Quotation Explorer - 'Inquisition'

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. - Thomas Hardy
In 1487 alone, two hundred heretics had-in one of the greatest euphemisms in the history of language-"relaxed," that is, burned at the stake. Dogs of God, Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors - James Reston Jr.
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