Quotes About History

The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.

It's a sad fact that some people are only remembered once they're dead.

Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there?

Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you.

Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller.

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

One social evil for which the New Testament is clearly in part responsible is anti-Semitism.

Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.

When we get through with the Jews in America, they'll think the treatment they received in Germany was nothing.