When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“It’s not a religion, it’s a relationship!' Without the religion, without the archaic and flawed holy texts, there wouldn’t be anything for… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
One does not have to be a 'climate change denier' to see that a degree of skepticism about the present consensus might… — Colin Robinson Copy Share Image
There is, for instance, only one page at the beginning of Runciman's three-volume History of the Crusades describing how the participants decided… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
[The tension] between the Christians and Muslims goes back to the Crusades, doesn't it? It's too easy to blame everything on one… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
The Arab rulers are basically unpopular. They are supported by the United States against the wishes of their people. In all of… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting. — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit cannot conquer the world with unbelief, nor can He save the world with a worldly Church. He calls for… — Samuel Chadwick Copy Share Image
I read in the newspaper that the Catholic Church finally decided that it had been theologically improper to try to convert the… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel… — Margaret Ayer Barnes Copy Share Image
We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war;… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Richard Dawkins says he can't be sure God doesn't exist. Well, you know what I do when I'm not sure about something?… — Frank J. Fleming Copy Share Image
The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Because of GLHR's crusades... we're beginning to learn the awful truth about workers around the world who are slaving away their lives… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and… — Mel White Copy Share Image
If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Like Russia's gangsterism and Bush's cronyism, contemporary Iraq is a creation of the fifty-year crusade to privatize the world. Rather than being… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
To picture Roosevelt as a man at this time in his life - he felt he was old. He was 53 years… — Geoffrey Cowan Copy Share Image
People who think of God as a warrior may become warriors themselves, whether in a Christian crusade, a Muslim jihad, or an… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image