Capitalism Quote by Tom Tancredo

“The historical irony is that European Christians coming to the Americas were escaping highly stratified and intolerant societies; in North America they encountered societies…

— Steven Charleston

“A person has to ignore the larger social, economic, political, and religious climate of early North American colonialism to advance the Christian nation myth.”

— David D. Flowers

“At the time, most Europeans believed that religious conformity was necessary to safeguard civil order, and they questioned how such a diverse colony could…

— David S. Kidder

The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The only part of the world where tribalism was fully superseded by more voluntary and individualistic forms of social relationship was Europe, where Christianity…

— Francis Fukuyama

“Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral…

— Evelyn Waugh

“The truth is, that the European nations paid not the slightest regard to the rights of the native tribes. They treated them as mere…

— Joseph Story

“Abruptly, with the shock of the Conquest, the sober and puritanical man of the Christian Inquisition encountered, through their violent and upsetting nature, peoples…

— Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

What happens when we examine the claims made for Western liberalism as a universalizing ideology of tolerance, human dignity, equality, and compassion is the…

— Pankaj Mishra

What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Our nation was settled and populated by Christians who could not abide persecution. Shipload after shipload of our Christian ancestors, for decade after decade,…

— John Price

“I knew I lived in a country founded on the murder of the body and the spirit of others. Native American nations were decimated…

— Jewelle Gomez