Alibis Quote by Eugene Ionesco

“The survival of religion is on the basis of torture and punishment; end of torture is end of religion.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to…

— Steven Pinker

First of all, we need to condemn violence and terror without prejudice towards caste, creed or community. All citizens of all religions have been…

— Victor Banerjee

“And so religions, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about an ending of violence and hatred through…

— Eckhart Tolle

Terrorists and the divine forces that innocent men, women and children, race, creed, religion kills without discrimination

— Mak_786

So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash…

— Arundhati Roy

It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression…

— Federico Mayor Zaragoza

During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if there was…

— Margaret E. Knight

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

— Eric Hoffer

In a world wounded by conflicts, where violence is justified in God's name, it's important to repeat that religion can never become a vehicle…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even…

— Jim Fergus

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

— Abraham Lincoln