Quotes About Holy War

I think the evangelicals think they're in a holy war now.

The holiest war is the one which is fought against the war industry!

Will be a divine fight, a holy war...Armageddon on a miniature scale.

An unavoidable war is called justice. When brutality is the only option left it is holy

Una guerra santa sigue siendo una guerra.

The nature of the Arabic language meant that a precise translation of the Koran was unobtainable. I found myself referring to two quite different English interpretations—George Sale's for a feel for the poetry of the work, and Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall's for a clearer sense of what the text actually said about sex and marriage, work and holy war.

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

When a holy was is declared, the end justifies any means to those crusaders.

The crusaders fought war, and they won leprosy . (Les croisés firent la guerre, et ils gagnèrent la lèpre)

Gotta keep an eye on those terrorist polar bears, and make sure Santa's elves aren't planning a holy war.

If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.

'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

In 1186 Saladin in his turn proclaimed a Holy War. He promised his warlike hordes booty and adventure in this world and bliss eternal in the next, and advanced upon Jerusalem.

Not all the young women recruited to holy war had their feet caned by the moral police. There were those who held the canes.

For an organization devoted to revolutionary holy war, the pre-9/11 al-Qaeda sometimes had the feel of an insurance company, albeit a heavily armed one.

The main thing wrong with religion is that people have gotten it wrong. The goal is to understand religion as it should be understood, as traditions, myths, symbols, and practices intended to lead one to a deeper, more profound experience of human life. The desire for this knowledge is hard wired in us. That won't disappear. Unless of course we wipe each other out in the next holy war, in which case we've successfully screwed ourselves.

It was apparent that both the Wazirs and the Mahsuds were building up a large lashkar (a gathering of hostile forces); the numbers were reported as about 1,000 armed men. This was the first occasion that I heard the word 'Jihud' mentioned; there are a number of interpretations given to it; in its simplest form it could be a holy war declared by Muslims on the unbelievers of Islam.

Holy war is not about religion. Holy war is needed by anyone who works for humans or lives among humans, because even the mildest demons can blind you and make you break laws that were meant to protect peace and prosperity of others. Even the tiniest amount of demons can make you harass and attack innocent people in streets, homes, neighborhoods, workplaces and even countries.

No one can blame his defeat in a holy war on another person, priest, group or religion. Each man's holy war is his own.