Biographies Quote by Jurgen Habermas

All nations struggle in the aftermath of civil war. More than 100 years after the English Civil War, for instance, any prelate who was…

— Amanda Foreman

“The wars of religion that followed the Protestant Reformation caused many people to view religion as nothing more than an ideology with the potential…

— Jeremiah Vallery

Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious…

— Robert Graves

The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Disputes that were secular in origin, such as the Arab-Israeli conflict, have been allowed to fester and become “holy,” and once they have been…

— Karen Armstrong

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

— Michel Onfray

I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

— Lionel Blue

We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was sacked from…

— Eliza Griswold

They are mostly Americans and almost all are Protestant. Many have a strong grounding in the Bible. In Jerusalem, they suddenly take off their…

— Amos Elon

“If we are to make the ordinary man aware of the spiritual uity out of which asll the separate activities of our civilization have…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

Today, not a numerous, but an active part of the German people are beginning to realize, not that they have been led astray, not…

— Helmuth James Graf von Moltke