Causes Quote by Hosea Ballou

Ideology and religion are contraindicated for fanatics.

— Ilkin Santak

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

— George Washington

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

— Anonymous

“While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its problems. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us…

— Sam Harris

While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us…

— Sam Harris

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

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

— Benjamin Whichcote

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

— Tony Blair

Fanaticism is at its very strongest when it has political or, better still, religious motivation.

— Douglas Murray

The Exploitation of Religion Must Be Opposed.

— Yousef Saanei

Religious fanaticism has clearly produced, and in all probability will continue to produce, enormous amounts of bickering, fighting, violence, bloodshed, homicide, feuds, wars, and…

— Albert Ellis

“The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe ‘religious liberty’.”

— Richard Dawkins