Civilized Quote by James G. Frazer

“However, regarding sacrifices, one irony persists almost universally: the act of sacrifice was just opposite to its motive. People killed someone to appease so-called…

— Ajay Kansal

Doesn't anybody understand that killing in the name of God only makes Him a murderer?

— Jose Saramago

“Murder is an attempt to blot out the image of God here on earth. Unrighteous anger against someone made in the image of God…

— Gloria Furman

“Since time began man has been struggling with the problem of behavior. In early days, when almost every human attribute had its counterpart in…

— Lewis E. Lawes

It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's…

— Joseph Lowery

No one must use the name of God to commit violence. To kill in the name of God is a grave sacrilege. To discriminate…

— Pope Francis

The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Once man loses his faculty of indifference he becomes a potential murderer; once he transforms his idea into a god the consequences are incalculable.…

— Emil Cioran

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The world has far too much morality. If you added up all the homicides committed in pursuit of self-help justice, the casualties of religious…

— Steven Pinker

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician,…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even…

— Jim Fergus