Religious History Quotes

Religious History Quote of the day

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.

Archaeological discoveries made in Egypt and in the Near East in the past hundred years have opened our eyes to a spiritual and cultural heritage undreamed of by earlier generations.