Terry Jones Quotes

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

Every adult is free to choose his own religion, but fanaticism has to be fought lest freedom perish.

There shall not be two religions in Arabia.

The [Ottoman] Turks, having no idea of the sacred mysteries… were not accustomed to inquire into professions of faith or to persecute anyone on that account

There is a battle going on and we have to defend ourselves. Before you know it there will be more mosques than churches!

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together.

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning.

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.

While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.

Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and contradicts any claims they might have made that 'all religions are basically the same.' If all religions were indeed the same, why not let someone be 'converted' to another religion?

George W. Bush has merged church and state while trying to keep it apart in Iraq.

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits.... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

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.

No part of civil administration required greater care or nicer judgment than the conduct of religious parties.

The decision on the Buddhas was made according to Islamic rules. It was not done to insult any particular religion, but once an Islamic order is made, it cannot be changed.

... Jews, heathens, and other dissenters.

If the Shiites in a Sunni-dominated country insisted on practicing their religion openly, then … the Sunni state had no choice but to wage war on them.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion—except for the sect that can win political power.