Government Quote by Montesquieu

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

“The history of religion is the history of appalling violence, slaughter and sexual abuses, rationalised by the fairy tales of religious delusions.”

— Peter B. Lockhart

“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

“since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it became the…

— Tom Robbins

“And so religions, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about an ending of violence and hatred through…

— Eckhart Tolle

“...Religious wars have never produced the downfall of any religion.”

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of…

— Anonymous

“The power of belief alone could change the course of history.”

— Ted Dekker

“more evil has been carried out in the name of religion than any other force in human history.”

— Daniel Silva

“Wars over lands or resources that later meant nothing. The worst, over religious beliefs, which were nothing more than emotional ideas being systematically forced…

— Michael C. Grumley

“I think this is a very important thing to understand about Christianity. It was from its very beginnings, it seems, a religion of great…

— Anne Rice

“History does not record anywhere a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up…

— Robert Heinlein