Crusades Quotes

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

— Johann Lamont

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

— Irving Babbitt

Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.

— Henry David Thoreau

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

— Paul Allen

There was one thing I was never going to do--no way: preach at a crusade!

— Franklin Graham

This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

— George W. Bush

“Men of God are not just born, they are formed”

— John Paul Warren

“I have learned that the harder you fall…the higher you bounce!”

— John Paul Warren

I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're…

— Ron Ben-Israel

Systems and processes are essential to keep the crusade going, but they should not replace the crusade.

— Simon Sinek

You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated…

— Helen Lawrenson

Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade.

— Cynthia Tucker

This guy [Steven Lerner] is a pure anti-capitalist. He despises America. He is on a personal crusade.

— Rush Limbaugh

Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.

— Thomas Sowell

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

— Omar Bongo

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

— Emma Goldman

“...current Muslim memories and anger about the Crusades are a twentieth-century creation, prompted in part by 'post-World War I British and French…

— Rodney Stark

For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on…

— Joe Klein

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

If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Rehearsels, actually." "Rehearsals?" "For the-" Oh,no. "-musicale." The Smythe-Smith musical.It finished off what the Crusades had begun.There wasn't a man alive who…

— Julia Quinn

When you believe that you are not worthwhile in and of yourself, in the back of your mind you also begin to…

— Marya Hornbacher

In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep…

— D. H. Lawrence

Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and…

— J. I. Packer

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

For me George Bush is just as scary, if not more. Because he doesn't look like a scary guy, because he's shaved…

— Marjane Satrapi

In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Helen Crawfurd and the Women's Peace Crusade, made a march on the City Chambers, distributing an illegal leaflet in front of police…

— Willie Gallacher

When I hear from people that religion doesn't hurt anything, I say really? Well besides wars, the crusades, the inquisitions, 9-11, ethnic…

— Bill Maher

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ...…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly…

— John Ralston Saul

Converting the war into an antislavery crusade was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part, and it resulted in a surge of voluntary…

— G. Edward Griffin

“Men speak of God’s love for man… but if providence does not come in this hour, where is He then? My conclusion…

— Daniel S. Fletcher

“Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg sat and said to my…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious…

— Jeffrey Tayler

“Many critics of the Crusades would seem to suppose that after the Muslims had overrun a major portion of Christendom, they should…

— Rodney Stark

“I remember one Gentleman objected to the Christian Faith, that it made Men insolent, quarrelsom and ill-natur'd. From whence I concluded, (as…

— William Stephens

“Scientific works and entire libraries were set to torch kindled by the insane religious fanatics. We have already mentioned the Bishop of…

— Petr Beckman

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

— Harold Wilson

We're on record. We're part of the crusade. We're not backing down.

— Julian Fantino