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Quotes About Conflict

Everywhere religion has gone it has created disunity.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel
~ Aja Monet
The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion? Why aren't they having a conclave; why aren't they coming together?
~ Elton John
Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.
~ Ricky Gervais
I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
~ Jack Dee
Jews and Muslims 'dialoguing' has nothing to do with Palestine. The problem is settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation, not religion.
~ Remi Kanazi
And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature.
~ Arundhati Roy
Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.
~ Richard Dawkins
Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends.
~ George Crabbe
Worry and faith just don't mix.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
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.
~ Philip Appleman
If you're going to war over religion, now you're just getting into a fight over who has the better imaginary friend.
~ Richard Jeni
Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion.
~ Robert H. Knight
Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another.
~ Benjamin Franklin
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.
~ W. H. Auden
I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.
~ Stephen King, Joyland
Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.
~ Stephen King, The Stand
Religion turned some folks belligerent.
~ Eileen Wilks, On the Prowl
Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.
~ George Herbert
Communists disavow the existence of God and religion. They hate it, because it's a competitor.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
~ Voltaire
Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
~ Bill Murray