Rip Torn Quotes

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

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars

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.

I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Religion is interesting because it brings out the best and the worst in humanity. It can be a source of good deeds, whether it's people from different spiritual backgrounds coming together to help other people in need after a crisis. But it's also a cause for war and bloodshed.

The borders of Islam are bloody.

The thing I worry about with religion isn't to do much with forgetting Christmas. It's to do with religion being angry and violent.

The reality is that religion, across the board, and in and of itself, neither provokes war nor promotes peace - and it is childish and naive, not to mention utopian, to believe otherwise.

Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

I respect religion and will respect any religion.

We are not at war against Islam.

The best religion is the most tolerant.

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

All too often, the word 'religion' has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world.

I'll be honest with you: politically, I have no issue with people, but my beef sometimes is with religion at the end of the day.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

There are atheists and Christians, and there are people in both groups who are a little too heavy-handed.