George Washington Quotes

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

The Catholics and Protestants … are occupied in nothing but cutting each other’s throats.

I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and irreligious", and so forth.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause: And I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of ⟨the present⟩ age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this Kind.

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

The last thing I would want to do is to create the impression that sectarianism came from only one side of the community.

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!

Once started religious strife has a tendency to go on and on, to become permanent feuds.

For the love of the Faith [Islam] I became enemies of the Hindus and pagans.

A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They've been offending other people for centuries.

Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought, all based on religious hatred. Which is fine with me! Any time a bunch of holy people want to go out and kill each other I'm a happy guy!

Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Israelis and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.

It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.

Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.

Organized religion is good for wars, battles, pissin' and moanin' and not much else.

Some have said that the clash between Catholicism and Protestantism illustrates the old maxim that religious freedom is the product of two equally pernicious fanaticisms, each cancelling the other out.

Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.

The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.

I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you and kill you because of your religion.' I think it's just a sick idea. You know how people are color-blind when it comes to other people - I mean, hopefully they are. Well, I'm religious-blind.

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.

The elite attack religious people and clergy with a vengeance.