Conflict Quote by Anonymous

[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

— Edward Gibbon

“Religious moderates are, in large part, responsible for the religious conflict in our world, because their beliefs provide the context in which scriptural literalism…

— Sam Harris

The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in…

— John Dewey

“Pierre asked his confessor: “Is it a sin to marry someone you don’t love?” Father Moineau was a square-faced, heavyset priest in his fifties.…

— Ken Follett

“That, more than anything else, explains why, throughout human history, religion has been a force both for boundless good and for unspeakable evil; why…

— Reza Aslan

“In my view the imposing tower of misery which today rests on the heart of India has its sole foundation in the absence of…

— Amartya Sen

“LYING WARS The war in Iraq grew out of the need to correct an error made by Geography when she put the West’s oil…

— Eduardo Galeano

“After Giles Palot was burned to death, Sylvie’s mother went into a depression. For Sylvie this was the most shocking of the traumas she…

— Ken Follett

Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza,…

— Elliott Abrams

Religion is the cause of all the problems in the world. I don’t believe in organized religion at all. It’s what separates people. One…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic…

— Elaine Pagels

“The moment the religious population of the world begins to see the prophets what they really were - mortal teachers of the mortal world,…

— Abhijit Naskar