Konrad Lorenz Quotes

Sectarianism, bigotry, and it's horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful Earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization, and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now.

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.

Jewish extremism and Islamic fanaticism fed each other.

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

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.

We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

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

Obstinacy in religious understanding leads to backwardness as in Muslims’, prevalence of violence and intolerance.

Over the course of history many religions have fallen victim to violent interpretations.

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

Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute.

Here [in Jerusalem], no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.

The end of the Cold War unfroze religion and ethnicity as violent forces…

Aren’t any of us worried about certain people who are fighting holy wars against certain other people who do not believe what they believe.

Terrorists have hijacked our religion.

It is always unfortunate when the innocent become victims of the anger and hatred of leaders, especially in the name of religion.

The Catholics and Protestants … are occupied in nothing but cutting each other’s throats.

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.

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

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.

I think the terrorists are just idiots.

Hamas cannot make peace with the Israelis. That is against what their God tells them. It is impossible to make peace with infidels, only a ceasefire.