Affects Quote by Karen Armstrong

Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection, because religions…

— Steven Pinker

Even though I don't have any larger spiritual or ideological system, there is some logic in concert with a huge number of beautiful, disconcerting,…

— Elizabeth Neel

Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in…

— Miroslav Volf

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets…

— Huston Smith

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

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence.

— Marshall McLuhan

Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you…

— Chaim Potok

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

— Hannah Arendt

Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long…

— Paul Bloom

“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

Ignorance of the real causes of religious violence

— Mak_786