--- title: "11 Crusaders Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 11 Crusaders quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Crusaders sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/keith-senior-94549_excuse_crusaders-have-just-f-ked-me-over-what-a_39786.png" --- > [Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-senior/crusaders-have-just-f-ked-me-over-what-a-bas-rd-joke-excuse-my/) [Keith Senior](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-senior/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/keith-senior-94549_excuse_crusaders-have-just-f-ked-me-over-what-a_39786.png) > [Crusaders shouldn't have been allowed in from the start.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-senior/crusaders-shouldn-t-have-been-allowed-in-from-the-start/) [Keith Senior](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-senior/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b59/keith-senior-94549_allowed_crusaders-shouldn-t-have-been-allowed-in_1374593.png) > [Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/policies-are-judged-by-their-consequences-but-crusades-are-judged-by/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18d/thomas-sowell-247_atheism_policies-are-judged-by-their-consequence_2814730.jpg) > [Life is a crusade in the service of God. Whether we wished to or not, we set out as crusaders to free…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikos-kazantzakis/life-is-a-crusade-in-the-service-of-god-whether-we-wished-to-or-not/) [Nikos Kazantzakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikos-kazantzakis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/574/nikos-kazantzakis-1116_crusade_life-is-a-crusade-in-the-service-of-god_2355808.jpg) > [Certainly there is abundant evidence of the early transmission by literary means of a considerable number of drolls and folk-tales from India…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-jacobs/certainly-there-is-abundant-evidence-of-the-early-transmission-by/) [Joseph Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-jacobs/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/baa/joseph-jacobs-23798_early_certainly-there-is-abundant-evidence-of_1088448.jpg) > [Of course I'm a publicity hound. Aren't all crusaders? How can you accomplish anything unless people know what you are trying to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vivien-kellems/of-course-i-m-a-publicity-hound-aren-t-all-crusaders-how-can-you/) [Vivien Kellems](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vivien-kellems/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4f/vivien-kellems-101082_publicity_of-course-i-m-a-publicity-hound-aren-t-a_738660.jpg) > [“By now the crusaders had christened the most powerful French catapult 'Mal Voisine', or 'Bad Neighbour', while nicknaming the Muslim stone-thrower that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-asbridge/by-now-the-crusaders-had-christened-the-most-powerful-french-catapult/) [Thomas Asbridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-asbridge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/429/thomas-asbridge-75256_crusades_by-now-the-crusaders-had-christened-the_2125465.jpg) > [“The Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism. They were not conducted for land, loot, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rodney-stark/the-crusades-were-not-unprovoked-they-were-not-the-first-round-of/) [Rodney Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rodney-stark/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e1/rodney-stark-7977_crusades_the-crusades-were-not-unprovoked-they-we_3014932.png) > [The awful atrocities of religion happened when people assume that God shares your likes and dislikes. The Crusaders when into battle to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/the-awful-atrocities-of-religion-happened-when-people-assume-that-god/) [Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69b/karen-armstrong-1053_assuming_the-awful-atrocities-of-religion-happene_2224880.jpg) > [“The Jews sought refuge in their synagogues, but the Crusaders set them on fire. The Jews were burned alive, almost a climactic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-sebag-montefiore/the-jews-sought-refuge-in-their-synagogues-but-the-crusaders-set-them/) [Simon Sebag Montefiore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-sebag-montefiore/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d7/simon-sebag-montefiore-2994_judaism_the-jews-sought-refuge-in-their-synagogu_1783353.jpg) > [“lost more than the Greeks, and much were the Greeks rejoiced thereat. And some there were who drew back from the assault,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/de-villehardouin-geoffroi/lost-more-than-the-greeks-and-much-were-the-greeks-rejoiced-thereat/) [de Villehardouin, Geoffroi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/de-villehardouin-geoffroi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/771/de-villehardouin-geoffroi-1055_monday-morning_lost-more-than-the-greeks-and-much-were_468646.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/crusaders/#itemlist", "name": "Crusaders Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Keith Senior" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-senior/crusaders-have-just-f-ked-me-over-what-a-bas-rd-joke-excuse-my/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/keith-senior-94549_excuse_crusaders-have-just-f-ked-me-over-what-a_39786.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/keith-senior-94549_excuse_crusaders-have-just-f-ked-me-over-what-a_39786.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59d/keith-senior-94549_excuse_crusaders-have-just-f-ked-me-over-what-a_39786.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious.” — Keith Senior", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Crusaders shouldn't have been allowed in from the start.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Keith Senior" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-senior/crusaders-shouldn-t-have-been-allowed-in-from-the-start/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b59/keith-senior-94549_allowed_crusaders-shouldn-t-have-been-allowed-in_1374593.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b59/keith-senior-94549_allowed_crusaders-shouldn-t-have-been-allowed-in_1374593.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b59/keith-senior-94549_allowed_crusaders-shouldn-t-have-been-allowed-in_1374593.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Crusaders shouldn't have been allowed in from the start.” — Keith Senior", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Sowell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/policies-are-judged-by-their-consequences-but-crusades-are-judged-by/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18d/thomas-sowell-247_atheism_policies-are-judged-by-their-consequence_2814730.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18d/thomas-sowell-247_atheism_policies-are-judged-by-their-consequence_2814730.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18d/thomas-sowell-247_atheism_policies-are-judged-by-their-consequence_2814730.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.” — Thomas Sowell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Life is a crusade in the service of God. 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The Crusaders were simply projecting onto a deity they'd created on their own image and likeness, all their hatred and loathing of these faiths and made it endorse some of their most awful prejudices and lethal prejudices.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Karen Armstrong" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/the-awful-atrocities-of-religion-happened-when-people-assume-that-god/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69b/karen-armstrong-1053_assuming_the-awful-atrocities-of-religion-happene_2224880.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69b/karen-armstrong-1053_assuming_the-awful-atrocities-of-religion-happene_2224880.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69b/karen-armstrong-1053_assuming_the-awful-atrocities-of-religion-happene_2224880.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The awful atrocities of religion happened when people assume that God shares your likes and dislikes. 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The Jews were burned alive…” — Simon Sebag Montefiore", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“lost more than the Greeks, and much were the Greeks rejoiced thereat. And some there were who drew back from the assault, with the ships in which they were. And some remained with their ships at anchor so near to the city that from either side they shot at one another with petraries and mangonels. Then, at vesper time, those of the host and the Doge of Venice called together a parliament, and assembled in a church on the other side of the straits-on the side where they had been quartered. There were many opinions given and discussed; and much were those of the host moved for the mischief that had that day befallen them. And many advised that they should attack the city on another side the side where it was not so well fortified. But the Venetians, who had fuller knowledge of the sea, said that if they went to that other side, the current would carry them down the straits, and that they would be unable to stop their ships. And you must know that there were those who would have been well pleased if the current had home them down the straits, or the wind, they cared not whither, so long -as they left that land behind, and went on their way. Nor is this to be wondered at, for they were in sore peril. Enough was there spoken, this way and in that; but the conclusion of their deliberation was this: that they would repair and refit on the following day, which was Saturday, and during the whole of Sunday, and that on the Monday they would return to the assault; and they devised further that the ships that carried the scaling ladders should be 61 bound together, two and two, so that two ships should be in case to attack one tower; for they had perceived that day how only one ship had attacked each tower, and that this had been too heavy a task for the ship, seeing that those in the tower were more in number than those on the ladder. For this reason was it well seen that two ships would attack each tower with greater effect than one. As had been settled, so was it done, and they waited thus during the Saturday and Sunday. THE CRUSADERS TAKE A PART OF THE CITY Before the assault the Emperor Mourzuphles had come to encamp, with all his power, in an open space, and had there pitched his scarlet tents. Thus matters remained till the Monday morning, when those on the ships, transports, and galleys were all armed. And those of the city stood in much less fear of them than they did at the beginning, and were in such good spirits that on the walls and towers you could see nothing but people. Then began an assault proud and marvellous, and every ship went straight before it to the attack. The noise of the battle was so great that it seemed to read the earth. Thus did the assault last for a long while, till our Lord raised a wind called Boreas which drove the ships and vessels further up on to the shore. 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