Richard Nixon Quotes

In the year 1562 a cloud of black and deadly portent was thickening over France. Surely and swiftly she glided towards the abyss of the religious wars. None could pierce the future, perhaps none dared to contemplate it: the wild rage of fanaticism and hate, friend grappling with friend, brother with brother, father with son; altars profaned, hearth-stones made desolate, the robes of Justice herself bedrenched with murder.

I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.

The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least

Science and religion cannot come into conflict… unless some one excites strife in them out of conceit and desire to show off one's ingenuity

Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

In a country like ours, burdened with a history of several centuries of religious wars, the struggle for freedom of liberal thought has often been bitter.

I personally am not religious. I think, put into the wrong hands, it's incredibly dangerous. It's the reason for most of the wars that have been fought around the world, and it's pretty ridiculous when you think about what they're actually arguing over.

Historically, religion has often proved a more lethal and more divisive force than any secular ideology. It has also often been a more divisive force than race.

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.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

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

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.

In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

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.

No religion can be built on force.

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.

The borders of Islam are bloody.

So many of the people killed in the world have been killed in religious conflicts. There is no more dangerous person in the world than someone who is doing what God has commanded.

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.

I don't criticise anybody, but I just don't understand religion. Like I don't understand nationalism. These are the two things that cause wars. I don't understand why they are supposed to be good things.

Religion is a very sensitive subject and reason for wars all over the world.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

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.