Leadership Quote by Geoffrey Hindley

“The Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism. They were not conducted for land, loot, or converts. The…

— Rodney Stark

“TO BE “THE SEWER OF CHRISTENDOM and drain all the discords out of it” was the primary function of the Crusades,”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“King Richard, who was a strong, restless, burly man, with one idea always in his head, and that the very troublesome idea of breaking…

— Charles Dickens

The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine to the…

— Herbert J. Muller

“They come together, like tomorrow, to kill each other they slaughter and maim tens of thousands of men, and the they say their prayers…

— Leo Tolstoy

“We are both people of faith," he said quietly. "Our enemies should be the people who have no faith, neither in their God, nor…

— Philippa Gregory

“On 23 August 1572, French Catholics who stressed the importance of good deeds attacked communities of French Protestants who highlighted God’s love for humankind.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

— J. G. Stedman

“Mackay had a low opinion of all Crusades. The Children’s Crusade struck him as only slightly more sordid than the ten Crusades for grown-ups.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Sunday morning came – next day the battalions would leave for the front; the church was filled; the volunteers were there, their young faces…

— Mark Twain

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

— Paul Allen

“his passionate speech, the pope called upon Christians to take up arms and return Christian holy places in Jerusalem to the church. The pope…

— Phyllis Goldstein