War Quote by Karen Armstrong

“The concessions we have made to religious faith - to the idea that belief can be sanctified by something other than evidence - have…

— Sam Harris

“believers fight each other over the correct interpretation and even kill members of their own faiths in battles over doctrine. Civilization has been immensely…

— Christopher Hitchens

“the quarrel is not against any particular points of hard digestion in the Christian system, but against religion in general; which, by laying restraints…

— Jonathan Swift

“The struggle in the Holy Land is no longer Palestinian versus Israeli, or Muslim versus Jew. It is between those who seek peace and…

— George W. Bush

“In fact, the causes of conflict are usually greed, envy, and ambition, but in an effort to sanitize them, these self-serving emotions have often…

— Karen Armstrong

The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

— Alexander Pope

“obsequious submissiveness to the religious authorities, and ultimately to Geneva.”

— Philip Pullman

When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means,…

— Anonymous

“Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal…

— George Washington

“In Jerusalem, belief as a form of aggression achieved near perfection. Whether you went deep in the earth or climbed the highest hill, someone's…

— Dan Fesperman

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

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