Crusades Quote by Karl Shapiro

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not…

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did…

— Moustapha Akkad

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the Crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did…

— Moustapha Akkad

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose…

— Alexander Cockburn

“War merely gives people an excuse to indulge themselves further, to murder with impunity.”

— John Connolly

War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without…

— Francesca Lia Block

There has always been excuses for wars, but NONE of them have been good or valid.

— Cindy Sheehan

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

War is sweet to them that know it not.

— Pindar

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero