Quotes About Conflict

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

The Christian religion and National Socialist doctrines are not compatible.

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.

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

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war, and most Muslims don't understand the true nature of Islam.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality.

In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.

Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spreading brotherly love!

Hurting people is my business.

In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Should I act violently in defense of my religion, absolutely.

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.