Crusades Quote by Emma Goldman

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of…

— Aldous Huxley

“...free-associative sexual libel...is typical of the impulses of religious authoritarians to demonize all heretics by attributing to them every manner of outrage that a…

— Jonathan Kirsch

“What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much…

— John Stuart Mill

anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon…

— Rosamond Lehmann

There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a…

— Josemaria Escriva

A crusade is, simply put, something that's bigger than you are. It's a "cause" with an impact that reaches beyond your personal wants and…

— Arthur L. Williams, Jr

“Then, what is sacrelige [sic]? If it is nothing more than a rebellion against dogma, it is eventually as meaningless as the dogma it…

— William Gaddis

“Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. Consequently…

— Bertrand Russell

“aggressive public displays of virtue are where the morally deplorable hide.”

— Milo Yiannopoulos

Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.

— Thomas Sowell

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

— Edmund Burke

Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so…

— Darrel Ray