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Quotes About Crusading

I should be campaigning for his release in print in a way that appeared crusading but actually wasn't quite effective enough to work. Like planting barely noticeable seeds of doubt into the prose. Subtle. I
~ Jon Ronson
It's true that I'm not known as a crooner or balladeer. I'm known for a more crusading or quixotic temperament.
~ Kurt Elling
After 350 years the defeat at Varna extinguished the appetite in the West for crusading; never again would Christendom unite to try to drive the Muslims out of Europe.
~ Roger Crowley
History will probably, because of the almost total abomination of the entertainment industry and the media, picture me as some kind of witch who was out for her own personal gain and crusading to do away with the homosexuals.
~ Anita Bryant
The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.
~ Sargent Shriver
It is said that members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union would relax at the end of a day spent crusading against alcohol with their cherished "women's tonics," preparations whose active ingredient was laudanum—opium.
~ Michael Pollan
The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.
~ Sargent Shriver
Popes, cardinals, bishops, priests, and monks carrying on with women, girls, boys, and each other? Hardly ever discussed! Not that there was anything wrong with carrying on— it's hypocrisy that stinks, not sex. But the Church torturing, murdering, crusading against, or infecting with disease millions of people in the name of our Lord the Savior, from Arabia to the Americas? Acknowledged with useless, pious regret, if even that.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
For some reason, America produced an inexhaustible supply of sanctimonious killjoys endlessly crusading to improve everyone else's life.
~ Unknown
The motives of the invasion were both economic and religious. The Martians sought water and vegetable matter; but they came also in a crusading spirit, to "liberate" the terrestrial diamonds.
~ Olaf Stapledon