Change things Quote by Gene Doucette

“In the history of mankind, more human beings were killed in the name of religion than for any reason,”

— Bobby Akart

“Humans were more than capable of murder all on their own.”

— Dan Wells

“If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast…

— Christopher Dutton

“Some killed from murderous conviction. But many others who killed were just afraid to stand out. other forces were at work besides conformism. But…

— Timothy Snyder

“Humanity is a good thing. Perhaps we can arrange the murder of a sizable number of people to save it.”

— Kenneth Patchen

“And you don’t understand how devastating fear and rage can be, and how quickly religion and civilization and human decency are forgotten when a…

— Orson Scott Card

“Their history wasn’t so far off the mean track, they were going through what a thousand other civilizations had gone through, and no doubt…

— Iain M. Banks

“Wars over lands or resources that later meant nothing. The worst, over religious beliefs, which were nothing more than emotional ideas being systematically forced…

— Michael C. Grumley

“There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.”

— Sam Harris

“There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.”

— Bryant McGill

“For most of human history, life was brutal and bloody. Humanity just took a big backward step toward that.”

— Bobby Adair

“All our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder.”

— Lucy Knisley