Pope Francis Quotes

Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

We cannot, if we would, delude ourselves about the true state of this dreadful contest. It is a religious war.

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

Religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it was at any time in the past. The recent conflicts in Palestine (Jews versus Muslims), the Balkans (Orthodox Serbians versus Catholic Croatians; Orthodox Serbians versus Bosnian and Albanian Muslims), Northern Ireland (Protestants versus Catholics), Kashmir (Muslims versus Hindus), Sudan (Muslims versus Christians and animists), Nigeria (Muslims versus Christians), Ethiopia and Eritrea (Muslims versus Christians), Sri Lanka (Sinhalese Buddhists versus Tamil Hindus), Indonesia (Muslims versus Timorese Christians), Iran and Iraq (Shiite versus Sunni Muslims), and the Caucasus (Orthodox Russians versus Chechen Muslims; Muslim Azerbaijanis versus Catholic and Orthodox Armenians) are merely a few cases in point. In these places religion has been the explicit cause of literally millions of deaths in the last 10 years.

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

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

The Jihad is not just a way of testing yourself but also means using violence to spread Islam.

All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

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

Religion can turn holy stories into flaming swords.

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.

We need to make ourselves deaf to the clamor of the whole world, because war feeds on despotism and is not fought for love of God

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

Organized religion is good for wars, battles, pissin' and moanin' and not much else.

Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death, and religiosu wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man?

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.

I believe all war to be wholly wrong.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

Religion is the cause of all the problems in the world. I don’t believe in organized religion at all. It’s what separates people. One religion just represents fragments, it causes war. More people have died because of religious conflict than any other reason.

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.