John Howard Quotes

A government which intentionally works against religious freedom is one that promotes radicalism and intolerance; and this ultimately undermines peace and security throughout the region and the world.

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.

Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites.

You have condemned them [Protestants]. You have not refuted them. Where do you read in the Bible that Christ, the apostles, and the prophets imprisoned, banished, burned, or murdered anyone?

Regrettably, the Obama administration has chosen to take a lackadaisical approach to religious freedom, and allowed IRFA to fade into the background.

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.

Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches.

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

Look not to the size of cathedrals or even to the words on the statute books for proof of the reality of religious freedom. Ask what is the fate of the Protestant in Spain, the Jew in Saudi Arabia, the Arab in Israel, the Catholic in Poland or the atheist in the United States?

It is the duty of every Catholic to persecute heretics.

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

More people have been killed by religious philosophy … yet we do not prevent their books from being distributed.

I have something against Islam.

Christians are being persecuted, not just in the Middle East but here in this country.

I know how it feels to be hated because of my religious beliefs.

I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion.

Look how in societies today where Islam is dominant and prominent, how any non-Islamic person, whether it's a Christian or an apostate or a woman or a critical journalist, how they are treated. This is in a very bad way, often with the death penalty or imprisonment or all those kind of terrible things.

Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith.

The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.

Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.