Burning At The Stake Quotes:

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

- Indira Gandhi

topic: Games, Political, Stakes, Political Games, Burning At The Stake

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

- Martin Luther

topic: God, Men, Grace, Confidence In God, God's Grace

We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.

- Catherine Fahringer

topic: Years, Mind, Church, Anti Christian, Christian Atheist

Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages.

- Salman Rushdie

source: "Living Novelistically". Interview with Richard Wolinksy, www.guernicamag.com. October 15, 2012.

topic: People, Islam, Age, Burning At The Stake

The name says it all. That's where Dad (Hades) tries out his new punishment ideas, but he says the traditional ones still work best: the lava flows, the minefields full of exploding surprises, burning at the stake, running naked through cactus patches... You name it, we've got it here - Nico di Angelo

- Rick Riordan

topic: Running, Dad, Punishment, Cactus, Burning At The Stake

The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake.

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

topic: Religious, Children, Rights, Great Religious, Burning At The Stake

Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

- Tom Clancy

source: "Executive Orders". Book by Tom Clancy, p. 613, 1996.

topic: Sex, Taken, Mean, Overcrowding, Cruel And Unusual Punishment

There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.

- Kathryn Bigelow

topic: Animal, Names, Looks, Animal Testing, Burning At The Stake

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

- Martha Ostenso

topic: Idols, Religion, Burning, Smashing, Crown Of Thorns