Bartolomé de las Casas: Quotes about the soul

Bartolomé de las Casas was Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer. Explore interesting quotes on soul.

Bartolomé de las Casas: 42 quotes16 likes

“Their reason for killing and destroying such an infinite number of souls is that the Christians have an ultimate aim, which is to acquire gold, and to swell themselves with riches in a very brief time and thus rise to a high estate disproportionate to their merits.”

— Bartolomé de las Casas

History of the Indies (1561)

“Christ seeks souls, not property. … He who wants a large part of mankind to be such that … he may act like a ferocious executioner toward them, press them into slavery, and through them grow rich, is a despotic master, not a Christian; a son of Satan, not of God; a plunderer, not a shepherd.”

— Bartolomé de las Casas

Source: In Defense of the Indians (1548), p. 40

God, Soul, Christ, Parting

“They made a grid of rods which they placed on forked sticks, then lashed the victims to the grid and lighted a smoldering fire underneath, so that little by little, as those captives screamed in despair and torment, their souls would leave them.”

— Bartolomé de las Casas

History of the Indies (1561)

Soul, Light, Despair

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