Quotes About History

Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.

The only figure in history who endures is Jesus.

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

We have fossils... We win!

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.

Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.

. . . every age thinks it is perfect, especially in religion.

Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.

If history teaches us any lessons at all, it teaches us that force applied to religion creates not a purity of faith but a river of blood.

One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.

How many evils have flowed from religion.

The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.