Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.

Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.

The march of history is accompanied by a steady flow of bodies into the abattoir of hate.

It takes a certain political initiative to make people kill one another.

Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.

The rise of ISIS has exposed the darkest side of humanity - at times manifesting their violent ideology at our very doorsteps.

Religion is a very sensitive subject and reason for wars all over the world.

History proves that those who seed extremist ideologies reap a bitter harvest.

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

There's a lot of hate in the world.

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

If you look at terrorists, they really have no sense of humor.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Al-Qa'ida is the antithesis of the peace, tolerance and humanity that is at the heart of Islam.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up.

I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, that's a very Christian thing to do.