Crusades Quotes

• Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Religious, Liars, War

  Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “Cosmic trigger: Down to earth”, New Falcon Pubns

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• A crusade is, simply put, something that's bigger than you are. It's a "cause" with an impact that reaches beyond your personal wants and needs.

  Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

  Impact, Want, Causes

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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.

  Moustapha Akkad

  Religious, War, Messages

  "The pitfalls of filming Muhammad" by Shahed Amanullah, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2009.

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• The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine to the Jordan. "In the temple of Solomon," wrote the ecstatic cleric Raimundus de Agiles, "one rode in blood up to the knees and even to the horses" bridles, by the just and marvelous judgment of God.

  Herbert J. Muller

  Horse, Blood, Two

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

  David Hume

  Age, Signals, Folly

  David Hume (2016). “The History of England, vol. 1~6, Completed: Revision of Great Book”, p.234, VM eBooks

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• The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.

  Alfred de Musset

  Heart, Land, Devotion

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• 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Religious, War, Native American

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “Religion”, p.55, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Man is only great when he acts from passion.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wise, Wisdom, Passion

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5018, Delphi Classics

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• Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Race, Population, Doctrine

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• Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, War, Fighting

  "Prejudices about Islam will be shaken by this show" by Karen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

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• This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

  George W. Bush

  War, Humor, Political

  George Walker Bush, John W. Dietrich (2005). “The George W. Bush Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches and Commentary”, p.41, M.E. Sharpe

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

  Hilaire Belloc

  Book, Writing, Dull

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• The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

  Aldous Huxley

  Luxury, People, Promise

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• Well, the task I've set forth will long outlive our own generation. But together, we too have come through the worst. Let us now begin a major effort to secure the best- a crusade for freedom that will engage the faith and fortitude of the next generation. For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Moving, Destiny

  Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London

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• The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.

  Jose Bergamin

  Country, War, Adventure

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• And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Horse, Home

  Barack Obama's Speech at National Prayer Breakfast, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 5, 2015.

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• Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.

  Amy Waldman

  Christian, Gay, Doctors

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

  Robert M. Lindner

  Elements, Movement, Revolution

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

  Julian Fantino

  Records, Backing Down

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• ...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.

  Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov

  Character, Independent, Islam

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• The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical. And that is what the perception is by the American Left who hates Christendom... What I'm talking about is onward American soldiers. What we're talking about are core American values.

  Rick Santorum

  Hate, Fighting, Talking

  "Santorum: Left hates 'Christendom'". www.politico.com. February 23, 2011.

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• Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Passion, Men, Imagination

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 4, ch. 13

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

  Omar Bongo

  Fighting, Islam, Terrorist

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• All the words that George Bush used in public during the early stages of the crisis - "wanted, dead or alive," "a crusade," etc. - suggest not so much an orderly and considered progress towards bringing the man to justice according to international norms, but rather something apocalyptic, something of the order of the criminal atrocity itself. That will make matters a lot, lot worse, because there are always consequences.

  Edward Said

  Men, Order, Justice

  Source: www.progressive.org

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

  John Lothrop Motley

  Improvement, Made, Serfs

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.18

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