Accounts Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism. They were not conducted for land, loot, or converts. The…

— Rodney Stark

Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.

— Thomas Sowell

The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged by how…

— Thomas Sowell

I'm not on any crusade.

— Don Henley

“...current Muslim memories and anger about the Crusades are a twentieth-century creation, prompted in part by 'post-World War I British and French imperialism and…

— Rodney Stark

“Many critics of the Crusades would seem to suppose that after the Muslims had overrun a major portion of Christendom, they should have been…

— Rodney Stark

If Europe had known as much of Islam, as Muslims knew of Christendom, in those days, those mad, adventurous, occasionally chivalrous and heroic, but…

— Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

— J. G. Stedman

A crusade is, simply put, something that's bigger than you are. It's a "cause" with an impact that reaches beyond your personal wants and…

— Arthur L. Williams, Jr

We can't be French and Muslim at the same time. And that's exactly what ISIS wants that population to think.

— Michael Leiter

Islam, as a religion, has been established in France for a long time, and the religious question has been resolved in this country. Islam…

— Tariq Ramadan

In France, they make you feel that you cannot be two things at the same time. You can't be French and Arabic; you can't…

— eL Seed