Ambition Quote by George Santayana

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions.…

— George Santayana

You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief,…

— Bertrand Russell

“And we know that the period during which the influence of Christian theism was strongest, was the period when the intellectual life of civilised…

— Chapman Cohen

Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the ferocity of…

— Ouida

Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to…

— M. M. Mangasarian

If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered, the harm…

— A.J. Ayer

“Disgusted by the abuses to which it led, humanity repressed Christianity by which it had so long been dominated. Repressed, but not eliminated. Herein…

— Paul Tournier

Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of…

— Georg Ebers

Organized religion became a projection of man and a representation of his evil.

— Rev Richard Skaff

“Today everybody admits that something is wrong with the world, and the critics of Christianity are the very people who feel this most. The…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

Recalling some of the most spectacular horrors of history - the burning of heretics and witches at the stake, the wholesale massacre of heathens,…

— Savitri Devi

Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture…

— Robert Green Ingersoll