Witch Hunt Quotes:

Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

- Desi Arnaz

source: Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

topic: Hearing, Witch, Joe Mccarthy, Witch Hunt

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

- Arthur Miller

topic: Opportunity, Class, Long, Individual Freedom, Witch Hunt

It's funny how everyone hates witch hunts... until they see a witch.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Hate, Witch, Hunts, Witch Hunt

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

- Walter Kirn

topic: Long, Witch, Hunts, Witch Hunt

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

- Bergen Evans

topic: Essence, Witch, Proof, Complicity, Witch Hunt

Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands.

- Joni Mitchell

source: Song: Tax Free, Album: Dog Eat Dog

topic: War, Hands, Land, Witch Hunt

We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.

- E. B. White

source: E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.92, Cornell University Press

topic: Loyalty, Fighting, Tolerance, Witch Hunt

Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil.

- Arthur Miller

topic: Devil, Witch, Sexuality, Witch Hunt

You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded.

- Michael Scott

topic: Gay, People, Acting, Retard, Witch Hunt

We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today.

- Thomas Szasz

source: Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.160, Syracuse University Press

topic: Today, Witch, Mental Illness, Witch Hunt

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.

- Mae West

topic: Believe, Judging, Holocaust, Witch Hunt, Spanish Inquisition

Of course, we all have to be taxed, but once you start to earn more than £150,000, and start paying 45 per cent tax, you are penalised. It is like a witch hunt.

- Anthea Turner

source: Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

topic: Witch, Taxes, Cents, Witch Hunt

There was just too much evidence, from too many witnesses, pointing too many fingers at Ryan and his colleague for either defense team to have been able to portray it as a coincidence or a witch hunt or anything short of widespread corruption. And that's why we see this verdict.

- Andrew Cohen

topic: Witch Hunt

The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often the worst kind, and have been since the secular authorities stopped enforcing the local bishop's decrees of anathema.

- Jerry Pournelle

topic: Arrogance, Bishops, Kind, Witch Hunt, Anathema

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

- John le Carre

topic: War, Cold, Witch, Witch Hunt

[A 2005 response to doping allegations] Unfortunately, the witch hunt continues and tomorrow's article is nothing short of tabloid journalism. The paper even admits in its own article that the science in question here is faulty and that I have no way to defend myself. They state: 'There will therefore be no counter-exam nor regulatory prosecutions, in a strict sense, since defendant's rights cannot be respected.' I will simply restate what I have said many times: I have never taken performance enhancing drugs.

- Lance Armstrong

topic: Taken, Rights, Drug, Performance Enhancing Drugs, Witch Hunt

Are Singaporeans so easily offended? Please. Have more of a backbone and thick-skin. Are you going to go on a frenzied witch hunt just because some foreigner called you a loser on the Internet?

- Calvin Cheng

topic: Skins, Goes On, Loser, Thick Skin, Witch Hunt

Predictions that unit cohesion could not survive honesty about sexual orientation were simply wrong. What does threaten morale arethe prolonged investigations, the questioning of friends and co-workers, the searches of barracks for magazines and letters, the witch hunts.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Honesty, Doe, Magazines, Witch Hunt, Co Worker