Conflict Quote by Lawrence Wright

Unfortunately, violent events and hate-filled rhetoric around the world provide ample opportunity for promoting religious hostility.

— Ibrahim Hooper

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

Ignorance of the real causes of religious violence

— Mak_786

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

— Anonymous

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

It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.

— Thomas Keating

“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

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent,…

— Karen Armstrong

“As editor of the largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily . . . and I am amazed by the…

— Anonymous

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and…

— Cat Stevens

“It is a neglected but essential fact that we cannot appreciate the relationship between religion and violence unless we grasp the nature and meaning…

— Jack David Eller

“Religious moderates are, in large part, responsible for the religious conflict in our world, because their beliefs provide the context in which scriptural literalism…

— Sam Harris