Quotes About Crusaders

#1. SJWs... picture themselves as persecuted, oppressed crusaders for peace and equality....These are people who, on a regular basis, call for violence and genocide against "oppressors", whether it's white people, heterosexual people, thin people, or just anyone who even slightly disagrees with them.

Joshua Goldberg

#2. The Crusaders lead to the Knights Templar; the Knights Templar lead to the Masons; and the Masons lead to the Shriners, a secret society that controls world government, toys with our banking system, and single-handedly keeps the fez industry afloat.

Stephen Colbert

#3. No doubt it was "unenlightened" of the crusaders to have been typical medieval warriors, but it seems even more unenlightened to anachronistically impose the Geneva Conventions on the crusaders while pretending that their Islamic opponents were innocent victims.

Rodney Stark

#4. He forgot how he himself had been blind, a short time ago - after the fashion of all crusaders since the original ones, who set out to spread the gospel of Brotherhood by force of arms.

Upton Sinclair

#5. All of the promises of politicians, generals, madmen, and crusaders that war can create peace have yet to be borne out.

Barbara Kingsolver

#6. In the wine world, crusaders would have wine consumers believe that the only wines of merit are something completely indefinable but which they call 'authentic' or 'natural.'

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#7. Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious.

Keith Senior

#8. In my opinion, the difference between the crusaders and us was a matter of degree. Europe's medieval Catholics claimed their goal was to save Muslims from purgatory; we claimed that we wanted to help the Saudis modernize.

John Perkins

#9. To give you an idea how slowly we are leaving Afghanistan, Afghans don't refer to us anymore as 'infidel crusaders.' They refer to us as 'Irish relatives.'

Bill Maher

#10. But like the crusaders, who in the name of piety had carried out that dreadful massacre in Jerusalem, there were many citizens who failed to hear in those penitential sermons a call to mend their ways, and instead learnt to hate all those who didn't share their faith.

E.H. Gombrich

#11. The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged by how good it makes its crusaders feel.

Thomas Sowell

#12. In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

Jackie Speier

#13. It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance.

Terry Jones

#14. There is a Cult of Western evangelists and self-righteous crusaders who are determined to dislodge non-Western nations and usurp their governments.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#15. Life is a crusade in the service of God. Whether we wished to or not, we set out as crusaders to free - not the Holy Sepulcher - but that God buried in matter and in our souls.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#16. Crusaders shouldn't have been allowed in from the start.

Keith Senior

#17. By now the crusaders had christened the most powerful French catapult 'Mal Voisine', or 'Bad Neighbour', while nicknaming the Muslim stone-thrower that targeted it for conter-bombardment 'Mal Cousine', or 'Bad Relation'.

Thomas Asbridge

#18. Stupid Crusaders with their stupid rules. For a homicidal group, they're appallingly restrictive.
No, Meda, you can't leave campus.
No, Meda, you know we have a curfew.
No, Meda, you can't eat that guy.

Eliza Crewe

#19. Statesmen think in terms of history and view society as an organism. Prophets are different since they believe absolute aims can be achieved in the foreseeable future. More people have been killed by crusaders than by statesmen.

Henry A. Kissinger

#20. The Crusaders come to one immediate decision. They decide that the Orthodox Greek Christians, the Georgian Christians, the Armenian Christians and the Jacobite Christians no longer could hold services in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Only the Latin rite could be celebrated in Jerusalem.

Paul L. Williams

#21. Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripatetic crusaders like Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Dix.

Gail Collins

#22. Apocalyptic expectations ran riot in 1917, and had a major influence on Allied policies towards Palestine and the Jewish people. The propaganda of all nations was amazingly religious and apocalyptic - ghosts and visions, crucifixions and sacrifice, crusaders and holy warriors.

Philip Jenkins

#23. The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.

Thomas Sowell

#25. Insull was a serious and driven young man. Born into a family of temperance crusaders, he spent his boyhood poring over books with titles like Lives of the Great Engineers and Self-Help.

Nicholas Carr

#26. Certainly there is abundant evidence of the early transmission by literary means of a considerable number of drolls and folk-tales from India about the time of the Crusaders.

Joseph Jacobs

#27. The Crusades were not unprovoked. They were not the first round of European colonialism. They were not conducted for land, loot, or converts. The crusaders were not barbarians who victimized the cultivated Muslims. They sincerely believed that they served in God's battalions.

Rodney Stark

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

Colleen Gleason

#29. There is a war out there, and believe me, Fly, it was never really between Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Crusaders and Confucius. The final battle is between those who love, respect, and liberate the body and those who hate it

Rawi Hage

#30. I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.

James Stockdale

#31. Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

Charles W. Colson

#32. The church does not need apologists of its causes nor crusaders of its battles, but sowers humble and confident of the truth, who ... trust of its power

Pope Francis

#33. Many American pundits and foreign policy experts love to depict themselves as crusaders for human rights, but it almost always takes the form of condemning other governments, never their own.

Glenn Greenwald