Affair Quote by Voltaire Download Open image ““Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.”” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affair Courses Religion Whole
“...Religious wars have never produced the downfall of any religion.” — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
“Religions began as realization of the self, but ended up being retaliation against each other.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased.” — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that we have defeated too many dictators; but we must not forget that the religion is still out there.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“So I said good-bye to government, And I gave my reason: That a really good religion Is a form a treason” — kurt vonnegut Copy Share Image
“more evil has been carried out in the name of religion than any other force in human history.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“The cause didn't seem sacred to her. The war did not seem to be holy affair.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Countless other words such as honor, justice, morality, internationalism, democracy, science, and religion had simply ceased to exist.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence.” — Jeffrey Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Both parties continued as violent as if they could have pleaded the distinct commands of Heaven to justify their intolerance,” — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter… — Michael Atherton Copy Share Image