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Spanish Inquisition Quotes

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..
- Graham Chapman

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!
- Michael Palin

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.
- Kurt Vonnegut

...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.
- Neil Gaiman

Black_Venus: Here it goes:
Curious mosaic
Continental drift
Parabolic metaphor
Elemental rift
Time and transposition
Conscious intermission
Assertion?
Desertion --
Black_Venus: That's all I have so far. You finish it.
Me: How about Spanish Inquisition.
- Julie Anne Peters

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

pro scienta atque sapienta-Latin- for science and wisdom

It's a Darwinian popularity contest. at all times, the question on everyone's mind is, "who's coolest?"
Do you want the Spanish Inquisition in here? you better start acting with a little sobriety, or your mother is going to put two and two together
- Ned Vizzini

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