Quotes about Violence

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

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.

One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.

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.

There is no religion in fact that I know that encourages or propagates violence in that its adherents should carry out.

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

I don't know any religion that promotes violence. It is the adherents of whatever religion.

Kings were no better than murderers, the only difference being that they had a legal monopoly on killing.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Judaism and Christianity, and Islam too, all drip honeyed words of love and mercy so long as they do not have access to handcuffs, grills, dominion, torture chambers, and gallows. All these faiths, including those that have appeared in recent generations and continue to mesmerize adherents to this day, all arose to save us and all just as soon started to shed our blood.

It is painful beyond measure to lose a loving father and grandmother to violence.