Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts. — Desi Arnaz
The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true. — Elbert Hubbard
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. — Marie Curie
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. — P. J. O'Rourke
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth! — Jonathan Davis
When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour. — Piers Anthony
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him. — Henry Ward Beecher
The search for someone to blame is always successful. — Robert Half
Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish. — Theodore Dalrymple
McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. — Joseph McCarthy
To seek the hair in the egg, to pick faults where there are none. — Italian Proverbs
Short Witch Hunt Quotes
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. — Maria W. Stewart
It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. — Mary Stewart
Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat. — Mignon McLaughlin
The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind — Dennis Prager
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil. — Lord Byron
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. — H. P. Lovecraft
Witch Hunt Image Quotes
Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.
Witches Quotes
And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know that I can do it. — Abigail Williams
I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will. — Sandra Cisneros
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare
Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he will eat for a life time.
Mafia is a process,not a thing. Mafia is a form of clan - cooperation to which it's individual members pledge lifelong loyalty....Friendship, connections, family ties, trust, loyalty, obedience - this was the glue that held us together. — Joseph Bonanno
We held hands when we walked down the gingerbread path into the forest, blood dripping from our fingers. We danced with witches and kissed monsters. We turned us into wintergirls, when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone. — Laurie Halse Anderson
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help? — Mark Twain
The population is made up of four types of people: A small number hunt witches. A large number go along with the hunt. A larger number are silent. A tiny number oppose it. The final group – as if by magic – become witches. — Bret Weinstein
Witchcraft is, and was, not... for everyone. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can slip for a few minutes out of the world into the world of faery, it is of no use to you. — Gerald Gardner
A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster. — Jeremy Clarkson
Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. — Pat Robertson
It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft. — Jacob Bernoulli
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. — Thomas Jefferson
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Witchcraft ... is a spiritual path. You walk it for nourishment of the soul, to commune with the life force of the universe, and to thereby better know your own life. — Christopher Penczak
Lord, there's danger in this land, you get witch hunts and wars when church and state hold hands. — Joni Mitchell
Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted. — Walter Kirn
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
You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded. — Michael Scott
It's funny how everyone hates witch hunts... until they see a witch. — Jon Stewart
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
witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages. — Patricia J. Williams
Witch-hunts are always spooked by women's horrifying sexuality awakened by the superstud Devil. — Arthur Miller
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
I think the aim - and certainly the aim of what I've tried to do since leaving - is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It's to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine. — David Kay
Here in the U.S. we do have a problem with a president Donald Trump who uses language in two distinctly destructive ways. One is to lie, and to use words to mean their opposite. Like, when he calls the Russian investigation a "witch hunt." He can't call it a "witch hunt" because a witch hunt is something that a powerful person does against a powerless person. The most powerful man in the world cannot be the object of a witch hunt. — Masha Gessen
The Russian story's all an excuse for the Democrats losing. That's a total witch hunt, the whole Russia story. It's a hoax. It's a hoax. We had no collusion with Russia. We never dealt with Russia. — Donald Trump
I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt. — Donald Trump
We have some bad hombres here, and we're going to get them out. — Donald Trump
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
Don't count your boobies until they are hatched. — James Thurber
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
MAYBE SOME WOMEN AREN'T MEANT TO BE TAMED. — Carrie Bradshaw
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
Count not fowre except you have them in a wallett. — George Herbert
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
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
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
The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation, but the wrong culprit. Human sacrifices were made preeminently in times of epidemics, useless prayers were uttered, bogus miracles attested to, and scapegoats - such as Jews or heretics or witches - hunted down and burned. — Christopher Hitchens
Oh my God. You're a witch-hunter. I'm a witch. Hate to break it to you Daniel, but if you're a witch-hunter? You're doing it wrong." He gave me a sidelong smile. "Maybe it's not that kind of hunting." "Then you're definitely doing it wrong. — Kelley Armstrong
You're a stalker with hooves." -Percy Jackson — Rick Riordan
Go in and get us a shrunken head! — Ellen Schreiber
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