“...Religious wars have never produced the downfall of any religion.” — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
All religious wars are about people arguing over who has the biggest invisible friend. — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend. — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
It's not religious war, but Al-Qaeda always use religions, Islam - actually, as a pretext and as a cover and as a… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict. — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Religion is all good, but we are almost back to medieval times now, where we are obsessed with going into religious wars… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
[The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered,… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
No other work has more often been blamed for more heinous crimes by the perpetrators of such crimes. The Bible has been… — Nadine Strossen Copy Share Image
The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Prior to and during [John] Locke's time, it was difficult to determine where religion or church left off and government or state… — Jayne Meadows Copy Share Image
“Still, if we combine all the victims of all these persecutions, it turns out that in these three centuries, the polytheistic Romans… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the… — Ouida Copy Share Image
You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It… — Roberto Esposito Copy Share Image
All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
We've gone thorough religious wars and civil wars. America has gone through slavery, we've all gone through two world wars, segregation. Ultimately… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror. — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
Jealousy destroys the matrimonies; jealousy destroys the friendships, jealousy provokes religious wars, fratricidal hates, murderers and all kind of suffering. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the Crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few… — Moustapha Akkad Copy Share Image