Crusades Quotes

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If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the Crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this.

The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

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.

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.

The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical.

Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

And that is what the perception is by the American left, who hates Christendom.

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

We're on record. We're part of the crusade. We're not backing down.

...until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical figures.

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

Every government, left or right, always engages in moral crusades. What else are they supposed to do? Especially when they make war; any war has to be a moral crusade.

You [the employees] are involved in a crusade.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.

Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

A good journalistic organisation upholds four values: inform, reflect, crusade, connect.

Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity

None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.

It's my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.

There was one thing I was never going to do--no way: preach at a crusade!

It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people.

Every war is its own excuse. That's why they're all surrounded with ideals. That's why they're all crusades.

Men of God are not just born, they are formed

I have learned that the harder you fall…the higher you bounce!