#crusade

During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it. ↗

— J. G. Stedman

#during #mad #now #religious #want

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#early #example #for example #gay #i

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#communism #crusade #even #imaginary #more

This life, this entire world, was a crucible. It was the crusade of their times, and they were the knights, the warriors. ↗

— Nancy Holder

#life

Then she reached to kiss him on the lips, and he let himself have that. Soft, warm, she loved him, a monstrous abomination, a Cursed One. This might be all they ever had, this moment, this kiss, this love. ↗

— Nancy Holder

#crusade #jenn #love

The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God. ↗

— Nancy Holder

#inspirational #inspirational

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. It is the resistance offered to definite ideas by that vague bulk of people whose ideas are indefinite to excess. Bigotry may be called the appalling frenzy of the indifferent. This frenzy of the indifferent is in truth a terrible thing; it has made all monstrous and widely pervading persecutions. In this degree it was not the people who cared who ever persecuted; the people who cared were not sufficiently numerous. It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack. There have come some persecutions out of the pain of a passionate certainty; but these produced, not bigotry, but fanaticism--a very different and a somewhat admirable thing. Bigotry in the main has always been the pervading omnipotence of those who do not care crushing out those who care in darkness and blood. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#fanaticism #ideas #moral-crusade #oppression #anger

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message. ↗

— Moustapha Akkad

#because #blame #christianity #crusades #did

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#moral #nothing #party

The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation. ↗

— David Hume

#age