John C. Danforth Quotes

Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change.

The sword is too much in evidence among Mussalmans [Muslims]. It must be sheathed if Islam is to be what it means—peace.

Both sides are slaughtering each other as they scream ‘Allahu akbar …. I say let Allah sort it out.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

The borders of Islam are bloody.

This is the vow to those consumed by hatred. We have but one path—waging war on them to the death.

Art and religion would not be able to stop war any more than they would be able to stop tomorrow

Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.

How many lives have been lost by men who believe God had commanded them to do so?

I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.

We are not at war against Islam.

We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realized they can't get away with it.

Anybody who resorts to violence will have no friends in the United States.

Calls for Christians to mobilize politically against others is contrary to the teaching and example of Jesus.

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

Islam is not the enemy, religious extremism is.

Having Islamic people inside the tent playing by democratic rules is a lot better than having Al Qaeda outside the tent trying to blow it up.

When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined [Among Christians].