Religious Conflict Quotes

• In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Religious, War, Reality

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• Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

  William J. Brennan

  Religious, People, Atheism

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• Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

  Tony Blair

  Religious, Numbers, Racism

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• A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Struggle, Mean

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• Religion is the cause of all the problems in the world. I don’t believe in organized religion at all. It’s what separates people. One religion just represents fragments, it causes war. More people have died because of religious conflict than any other reason.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Religious, War, Believe

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• Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.

  John Shattuck

  Religious, World, Today

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• [In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

  Edward Gibbon

  Religious, War, Byzantine

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• The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.

  John Dewey

  Religious, Atheism, Belief

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.241, University of Illinois Press

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• I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic.

  Woody Allen

  Girl, Witty, Religious

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