Fanaticism Quote by Sorin Cerin

“The first thing for you to understand is that in this place there are no martyrdoms. You have read of the religious persecutions of…

— George Orwell

It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for…

— Laurence Sterne

“in Spain, thus gleaned of all heresy, the Inquisition could still swell its lists of murders to thirty-two thousand!”

— John Foxe

As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a…

— Voltaire

The Exploitation of Religion Must Be Opposed.

— Yousef Saanei

There is too much undissolved wrath and punishment in most religions.

— Joshua L. Liebman

The hostile multitudes are vast as spaceWhat chance is there that all should be subdued? Let but this angry mind be overthrownAnd every foe…

— Shantideva

“Satan laughed his unkind laugh to a finish; then he said: "It is a remarkable progress. In five or six thousand years five or…

— Mark Twain

In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.

— Matthew Henry

“If you are a member of a religion which has violence, killings and invading other countries in its history, it is a great shame!…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish the moral…

— Guenter Lewy