Dangerous Quote by Daniel Dennett

My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and…

— Richard Dawkins

It is people who are violent, rather than "religions"; and since we secularised our politics we have had two major world wars, the Holocaust,…

— Karen Armstrong

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker…

— Barack Obama

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation,…

— Richard Dawkins

You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.

— Mikhail Kalinin

So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand.

— Condoleezza Rice

Religion is a very sensitive subject and reason for wars all over the world.

— Yolanda Hadid

Whatever lessons we take from this dreadful attack (on the World Trade Center and Pentagon), we should never forget that it was, after all,…

— Wendy Kaminer

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

— Bruce Feiler

I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one…

— Thomas P. Campbell

An aggravating feature of this post-9/11 atmosphere is to cast suspicions on Muslims and on Islam as a religion that is interpreted as either…

— Richard A. Falk

“There is a dark side to religious devotion that is too often ignored or denied. As a means of motivating people to be cruel…

— Jon Krakauer