Quotes of Inquisition - somelinesforyou

“ Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system? ”

- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

“ Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor. ”

- Jeremy Taylor

“ Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary conforms to the intellectual expectations of our age: it is a pseudo-medical jargon that parodies the concepts of science… ”

- Thomas Szasz
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