Ridley Scott Quotes

More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason.

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god.

Every man thinks god is on his side.

If Jesus came back today, I think he'd throw up.

This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come together again only to destroy each other.

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.

We all know that those who instigate those doubts are the enemies of God, the enemies of religion and the enemies of all humanity. Their hearts are full of hatred.

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.

Religious feuds are rife…. Everybody goes on just the same, and nobody cares except those who can’t get bread to eat.

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.

Man's inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man.

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.

What is God, and how do you believe in him - how do you not believe? It's a question the world continues to tussle with. People's beliefs get them in a lot of conflicts.

To me, religion is the reason there is so much conflict in this world, and I think it's just so unnecessary to believe in this blue-eyed, white-bearded, white-haired God.

I believe in God, and I certainly believe in the devil. There's certainly a devil, and he knows my name.

Let's face it: the world is twisted. And rotten.

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God's name. Somebody's got to blow that myth out of the water.

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

Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.