Stephen Colbert Quotes

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

We’re not fighting for Christianity but against human fanaticism of all kinds.

If my son were to oppose the Catholic Church, I myself would carry the faggots to burn him.

Religious clerics have a big share in the rise on intolerance towards minorities. A country like Pakistan where literacy rate is low and people are naïve when it comes on opinion making, it becomes easy to be successful in manipulating people’s minds. The manipulation of their opinions by those who are extremists in their views and beliefs always meet disaster. These clerics have played an ugly role most of the times and their preaching of hate speech always led to more sufferings and disaster for minorities

It is always unfortunate when the innocent become victims of the anger and hatred of leaders, especially in the name of religion.

I don't hate Muslims. I hate Islam.

Islam is a malignant cancer.

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.

There are folks who burn the Koran and hold signs saying, "God hates fags" and all sorts of sick things - and they often hijack the headlines with hatred. We know that is not what Christ was like.

I don't believe in Jesus or God. But I do believe that fundamentalists in religion or anything else are bad, and that they have more hate than love.

How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?

This philosophy of hate, of religious and racial intolerance, with its passionate urge toward war, is loose in the world. It is the enemy of democracy; it is the enemy of all the fruitful and spiritual sides of life. It is our responsibility, as individuals and organizations, to resist this.

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.

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

We must fight intolerance, racism and the far-Right.

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

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

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

Those who do not love me do not deserve to live.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.

I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.