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“My dear young lady, when you are in love, and jealous, and have been flogged by the Inquisition, there's no knowing what you may do.”

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Book:Candide

Source: Candide

“But, alas, nobody anticipated the United States Department of Homeland Security.”

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Book:An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

Source: An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

“No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!”

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Author:Neil Innes

“... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at least wiser than the people of to-day who pretend that it does not matter what a man believes, as who should say that the flavour and digestibility of a pudding will have nothing to do with its ingredients.”

Source: The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West

“The decent moderation of today will be the least of human things tomorrow. At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretics; extreme and unreasonable opinion obviously demanded that they should burn none at all.”

“No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Pope! Um, I'll come in again.”

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Author:Graham Chapman

“And now for something completely different...”

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Author:John Cleese

“It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.”

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Author:Graham Chapman

“Always look on the bright side of life.”

Source: Monty Python's the life of Brian (of Nazareth)

“Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.”

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Book:If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“It was a perfectly normal gerbil. It appeared to be living in an exciting construction of cylinders, spheres and treadmills, such as the Spanish Inquisition would have devised if they'd had access to a plastics molding press.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.”

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Author:Graham Chapman

“After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he replied, `Still, the Earth is moving.'”

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Author:Junichiro Koizumi

“I believe that one day the world will judge the witch hunt against homosexuals just as harshly as it judges the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust.”

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Author:Mae West

“This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to dogma as any junior member of the Spanish Inquisition.”

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Author:Camille Paglia