War Quote by Walter Jon Williams

“Fanatics are everywhere, in religion, sports and politics. The majority are ready and willing to die for their beliefs. Even in love there are…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Naturally, what makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the…

— Jared Diamond

“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 peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial…

— Edward Gibbon

“offers numerous cautionary tales of kingdoms, cultures, and empires that squandered their soil and found themselves with nothing left to live on. From the…

— Judith D. Schwartz

“The advent of civilization--an overly optimistic word--didn't change things as much as one might think, because no matter how large a city or empire…

— Gene Doucette

“Many of the more ghastly and idiotic aspects of the Great War were made possible by the coincidence of mass-production and the social religion…

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

“They were an army of grim reapers, waging a war against those of us who had the audacity to live and embrace the pleasures…

— Edward Trimnell

“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

“Organised religion is the heroin of the masses. The unforgiving singularity of the desert allows for no deviance.”

— Jovan Autonomašević

“The organization of each Folk, as such, sprang in all likelihood mainly from war, from a common greed of conquest, a common need of…

— John Richard Green

“Wherever farming took root, violence emerged as a more important feature of social life.”

— James Dale Davidson