Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition Quotes

“It was Pope Innocent III who placed in the hands of the church this terrible weapon of persecution, and who, by the awful severity of his own attitude towards liberty of conscience, of thought, and of expression, afforded to fanaticism and religious intolerance an example that was to be their merciless guide through centuries to come.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Torquemada and the Spanish Inquisition