Burning At The Stake Quotes by Indira Gandhi, Tom Clancy, Martin Luther, Martha Ostenso, Kathryn Bigelow, Catherine Fahringer and many others.
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned 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.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.
Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It’s a martyr burning at the stake. It’s a crown of thorns and a cross.
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.
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.
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
