Quote by Adam Hochschild

“While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death.”

— Sam Harris

“if there’s anything missionaries do well, it’s seek out and destroy fun).”

— Christopher Moore

“Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is -- where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.”

— Robert C. Shannon

“I have but one candle of life to burn and would rather burn it out where people are dying in darkness than in a…

— Hudson Taylor

“As I see the world, there's one element that's even more corrosive than missionaries: tourists. It's not that I feel above them in any…

— Tahir Shah

“Years ago when I served as a missionary, we had a visit from Dr. James E. Talmage of the Council of the Twelve--a great…

— Harold B. Lee

“The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if…

— Terry Pratchett

“The photographs of the inmates at Bergen-Belsen or Andersonville Prison or the bodies in the ditch at My Lai disturb us in a singular…

— James Lee Burke

“They meet in church basements and offer bandages to those wounded by the shrapnel of exploding families.”

— Margaret Atwood

“detested the missionaries who made people “permanently miserable by telling them…how blissful a place heaven is, and [how] nearly impossible it is to get…

— Michael B. Oren

“Even with all their threats of eternal damnation and soul roasting, Christian missionaries have run across some who were not so quick to swallow…

— Anton Szandor LA Vey

“We are surrounded by the dry thorns of the Inquisition on all four sides; throwing around words burning like fire is the shortest way…

— Mehmet Murat ildan