The Templars were sworn to poverty, chastity, and obedience.

So basically America, they are the Knights Templars of, and they've taken us into, perpetual war - that's their game.

— Bez

“One misspoken word and the world will no longer know you. Mark Andrew Ramsay”

— Brendan Carroll

When the Saracens came to attack him, they threw Greek fire onto the barrier he had made; and the fire caught easily, And you…

— Jean de Joinville

A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.

— Umberto Eco

“People's imaginations have continued to work, right up to our own day; hence the incredible crop of fanciful allegations attributing to the Templars every…

— Régine Pernoud

“the first historical information on the Templars is provided by a Frankish historian, Guillaume de Tyre, who wrote between 1175 and 1185.”

— Michael Baigent

I think I'm probably an assassin and not a Templar, but no doubt we're probably run by people with Templar mentalities.

— Jeremy Irons

“The Jesuits’ strategy became clear to us when we discovered Father Barruel. Between 1797 and 1798, in response to the French Revolution, he writes…

— Umberto Eco

“The founders of Freemasonry—whoever they were—were certainly aware of the history of the Templars, and they were clearly inspired by Templar ideals: devotion to…

— Mark E. Kolko-Rivera

“The Templars realized that the secret lay not only in possessing the global map of the currents, but also in knowing the critical point,…

— Umberto Eco

They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture…

— Umberto Eco

“in 1522 the Templars’ Prussian progeny, the Teutonic Knights, secularized themselves, repudiated their allegiance to Rome, and threw their support behind an upstart rebel…

— Michael Baigent

Ergo, it is not St. George who is the patron saint of England, but Set of the Hyksos. In general terms whenever the code…

— Michael Tsarion

“All members of the order were obliged to wear white habits of surcoats and cloaks, and these soon evolved into the distinctive white mantle…

— Michael Baigent

And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other on the previous Shrove…

— Jean de Joinville