People Quote by Harvey Milk

More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.

— Harvey Milk

It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.

— Thomas Keating

Every religion has had people going out and killing in the name of it. But that's not what religion is.

— Abderrahmane Sissako

Ignorance of the real causes of religious violence

— Mak_786

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this…

— Karen Armstrong

Oftentimes, when I was reporting on conflict somewhere in the world or prison or wherever I might be, I'd be struck by the fact…

— Lawrence Wright

“As editor of the largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily . . . and I am amazed by the…

— Anonymous

In the Middle East, Iraq, Sudan, the former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and many other places in the world, religion has been so divisive…

— John C. Danforth

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

— Bobby Akart

In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Indeed, religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it was at any time in the past. The recent conflicts in…

— Sam Harris

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded.…

— Emile M. Cioran