Prosecution Of Witches Quotes & Sayings

Don't say what you would or wouldn't do, honey. Cause one day you might have to. — Larry Brown

People like it when they understand something that they previously thought they couldn't understand. It's a sense of empowerment. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Palgolak was a god of knowledge ... He was an amiable, pleasant deity, a sage whose existence was entirely devoted to the collection, categorization, and dissemination of information ... Palgolak's library ... did not lend books, but it did allow readers in at any time of the day or night, and there were very, very few books it did not allow access to. The Palgolaki were proselytizers, holding that everything known by a worshipper was immediately known by Palgolak, which was why they were religiously charged to read voraciously. But their mission was only secondarily for the glory of Palgolak, and primarily for the glory of knowledge, which was why they were sworn to admit all who wished to enter into their library. — China Mieville

The first known prosecution took place in Egypt around 1300 BC, for a crime that would today constitute practicing medicine without a license. (That supernatural medic was male.) Descended from Celtic horned gods and Teutonic folklore, Pan's distant ancestor the devil was not yet on the scene. He arrived with the New Testament, a volume notably free of witches. Nothing in the Bible connects the two, a job that fell, much later, to the church. — Stacy Schiff

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future. — Margaret Millar

In order to fight off fear we must become it. When we become one with fear we become one with opposite of fear, peace. They are two halves to the same object. — Matthew Donnelly

I rarely go into a shop on holiday, because fashion and design are what I'm involved in every day. I need another world. — Carolina Herrera