Able Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical needs of countless millions for twelve…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we…

— Thomas Paine

“The anti-religious modernism which now threatens Islam and Muslims everywhere can be fully understood only by understanding the religion of the civilization in whose…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would…

— David Hume

“When we examine, not the language of the propaganda, but the witness of the combatants themselves, religion does not occupy the first place. Their…

— Tzvetan Todorov

“The true religion would have to teach greatness and wretchedness, inspire self-esteem and self-contempt, love and hate.”

— Blaise Pascal

The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.

— Geert Wilders

“as the mass of mankind remains always at about the same pitch of misery, it never assents long to any one remedy, but is…

— Christopher Hitchens

“While the Muslim world took delight in innovation, progress and new ideas, much of Christian Europe withered in the gloom, crippled by a lack…

— Peter Frankopan

“The Qur’ān began by criticizing two closely related aspects of that society: the polytheism or multiplicity of gods which was symptomatic of the segmentation…

— Fazlur Rahman

“Next to knowledge, commerce was the mainspring of the mobility of Muslim society. The power of money was fully understood by scholars. Their own…

— Franz Rosenthal