Yolanda Hadid Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world.

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

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

There is nothing as potentially polarizing as religion.

Religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....

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

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

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.

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

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

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.

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

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

All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

God save us from religion.

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.

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.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.