Denzel Washington Quotes

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it was at any time in the past. The recent conflicts in Palestine (Jews versus Muslims), the Balkans (Orthodox Serbians versus Catholic Croatians; Orthodox Serbians versus Bosnian and Albanian Muslims), Northern Ireland (Protestants versus Catholics), Kashmir (Muslims versus Hindus), Sudan (Muslims versus Christians and animists), Nigeria (Muslims versus Christians), Ethiopia and Eritrea (Muslims versus Christians), Sri Lanka (Sinhalese Buddhists versus Tamil Hindus), Indonesia (Muslims versus Timorese Christians), Iran and Iraq (Shiite versus Sunni Muslims), and the Caucasus (Orthodox Russians versus Chechen Muslims; Muslim Azerbaijanis versus Catholic and Orthodox Armenians) are merely a few cases in point. In these places religion has been the explicit cause of literally millions of deaths in the last 10 years.

Young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which ... develops patriotism and courage. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul.

In the Middle East, Iraq, Sudan, the former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and many other places in the world, religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God.

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.