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
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
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical.… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split… — Hans Urs von Balthasar 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
The crusade is never off my mind - the exercise I do, the food I eat, the thought I think - all… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights,… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
The defenders of godism are now shrieking against the growing number of Atheists, and there is a call to the religious world… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I want so badly to tell Her it’s going to be all right, that I’ll leave the band and forget this silly… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
And I know, that I know, that I know, we are about to see the greatest manifestations of God's presence ever! A… — Benny Hinn Copy Share Image
All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic… — Alistair Cooke 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
Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade - whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a… — Aimee Teegarden Copy Share Image
“TO BE “THE SEWER OF CHRISTENDOM and drain all the discords out of it” was the primary function of the Crusades,” — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
This crusade to separate church and state is only one expression of my raison d'être. I'm an atheist, but I'm also an… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts. — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the… — Howard Fineman Copy Share Image
In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom,… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
“They reminded me, however, of soldiers in the Crusades, the Wars of the Roses or the Norman Conquest. Thick, but willing to… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“[A] common denominator in European wars going back to the Crusades--no matter who won or lost, the one fairly reliable constant was… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
A crusade is, simply put, something that's bigger than you are. It's a "cause" with an impact that reaches beyond your personal… — Arthur L. Williams, Jr 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
The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical, — Rick Santorum 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
The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Well, for me, my favourite 'Indiana Jones' is 'The Last Crusade,' because you get tears in your eyes when you see the… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
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