Crusades Quote by Thomas Asbridge

“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

The awful atrocities of religion happened when people assume that God shares your likes and dislikes. The Crusaders when into battle to kill Muslims…

— Karen Armstrong

“Sir Steven Runciman, whose history of the Crusades is an imperishable work, because it demonstrates that medieval Christian fundamentalism not only constituted a menace…

— Christopher Hitchens

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of…

— Aldous Huxley

The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Those who crusade not for God in themselves but against the devil in others, never succeed in leaving the world better, but leave it…

— Aldous Huxley

“More bloodshed followed, as brother fought brother and religion battled religion in the age-old nonsense of settling whose method of worship was the holiest…

— Steve Alten

“.. The slaughter lasted the best part of two days. When it was over, the crusade leaders went in solemn procession to the church…

— Geoffrey Hindley

“...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

“We are both people of faith," he said quietly. "Our enemies should be the people who have no faith, neither in their God, nor…

— Philippa Gregory

In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in…

— Jose Rizal