Religion Conflict Quotes

#1. 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

#2. O! I shall soon despair, when I shall see
That Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me,
And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.

John Donne

#3. Buddhism, he thought, is a clean religion. You never heard about how eight people - two of them children - just got blown the fuck up as part of the long-standing conflict between Buddhists and whoever.

Scott Hawkins

#4. I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.

Elizabeth Bowen

#5. When religious groups in a conflict eliminate the personal element and perceive themselves as representatives of collectives, heir actions tend to become more "radical" and "merciless." (Ch.3, by Jaco Cilliers, p. 48)

David R. Smock

#6. It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science.

Albert Einstein

#7. There are, of course, deeply sincere people of religion in different parts of the world who genuinely fight on the side of the poor, but they are usually in conflict with organised religion themselves.

Tariq Ali

#8. The truth, however, is that the conflict between religion and science is unavoidable. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.

Sam Harris

#9. Condemning war has not curbed armed conflict. Religion and education did not eliminate war. Warfare did not terminate more wars. Armed combat simply breeds endless wars.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#10. The person who thinks there can be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or very ignorant of religion.

Joseph Henry

#11. Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one's faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.

Bill Nye

#12. The real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one.

Abhijit Naskar

#13. Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

Max Lucado

#14. I see no conflict between science and religion. When you take truth in either one of these realms, science or religion, they match perfectly.

Richard G. Scott

#15. Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

Alfred Russel Wallace

#16. Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

Henry Norris Russell

#17. The shift of awareness is most important key to the road of peace. Peace sought by single nation or religion will inevitably generate conflict. Only peace centered on encompassing the whole Earth can lead us to the "promised land" of ancient wisdom.

Ilchi Lee

#18. Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.

Karen Armstrong

#19. I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism ... Immanent religion is the only form of religion in which there is no conflict at all, that I can see, between science and religion.

Aldous Huxley

#20. The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.

Michael Medved

#21. Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#22. Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded, and an insurgent Islamic-based movement that seeks to increase the role of religion in public life.

Stephen Kinzer

#23. The famous conflict of science and religion has actually nothing to do with religion, but is simply of two sciences: that of 4000 B.C. and that of A.D. 2000.

Joseph Campbell

#24. From the point of view of many scientists, gods represent an explanation for the unknown. Scientists are focused on trying to understand the unknown, so there is a fundamental conflict. That said, some scientists find religion useful and perhaps even fulfilling.

Stanley B. Prusiner

#25. Ethnic conflict is a line between religion and stupidity.

M.F. Moonzajer

#26. But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

Tony Blair

#27. Creating conflicts and killing each other to be in accord with our only Creator should be the definition of insanity.

By promoting divisions and hostility among men, all monotheisms have proven that they are nothing but banal manners of clan formation.

Haroutioun Bochnakian

#28. The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later.

Criss Jami

#29. The religious scholars I have consulted are passionate about the need for political leaders to educate themselves in the varieties of faith and to see religion more as a potential means for reconciliation than as a source of conflict.

Madeleine Albright

#30. Religion often has conflict with science but spirituality is a science.

Debasish Mridha

#31. The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#32. This clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

G.K. Chesterton

#33. Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.

Louis Agassiz

#34. 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

#35. The real conflict over cosmology is not between religion and science-- it's between religion and materialism, between those who think that religious truth is both real and knowable and those who think that science explains everything.

Scott Klusendorf

#36. Should a conflict arise between the witness of the Holy Spirit to the fundamental truth of the Christian faith and beliefs based on argument and evidence then it is the former which must take precedence over the latter.

William Lane Craig

#37. Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

Pam Grier

#38. What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

B.R. Ambedkar

#39. 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

#40. It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#41. Religion has failed us. Christ was not a Christian. Buddha was not a Buddhist. Mohammed was not a Mohammedan. And yet ever since the dawn of history, we have engaged in conflict and war and terrorism and murder and racism and ethnocentrism and bigotry and prejudice in the name of God.

Deepak Chopra

#42. A scientific discovery is also a religious discovery. There is no conflict between science and religion. Our knowledge of God is made larger with every discovery we make about the world.

Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.

#43. 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

#44. Science is about explaining the world, and religion is about interpreting it. There shouldn't be any conflict.

Paul Davies

#45. Where slightest of conflict exists, there is neither God nor Religion.

Dada Bhagwan

#46. I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.

S. Truett Cathy

#47. Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Abraham Lincoln

#48. Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social markers of difference.

Nelson Mandela

#49. God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Desmond Tutu

#50. Modern scientific findings harmonize with revelation through the ages. No conflict exists between the gospel and any truth ... All true principles are a part of the gospel of Jesus Christ. There is no principle that we need to fear.

Spencer W. Kimball

#51. The question of how people orient around religion differently, or interact with one another, whether that be based on conflict or cooperation, will be one of the most engaging questions of the 21st century.

Eboo Patel

#52. I think there is unnecessary conflict right now between the vehemently religious and the LGBT community. The extremes of religion I think and the LGBT community have an issue and because a lot of black families in America are more religious, I think that is where the conflict comes into play.

John Amaechi

#53. For emotional reasons, connected with my affection for my parents, I was a reluctant atheist, but giving up religion brought peace of mind because intellectual conflict was resolved.

J.J.C. Smart

#54. Party politics and religion now substituting for class conflict.

Howard Zinn

#55. Sometimes religion becomes yet another source for more division and even open conflict. Because of that situation, I feel the different religious traditions have a great responsibility to provide peace of mind and a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood among humanity.

Dalai Lama

#56. H.L.Mencken's war aims, according to the handful of observers who deigned to notice his conflict, were the overthrow of American Democracy, the Christian religion, and the YMCA. He was also credited with trying to wipe out poets and luncheon orators.

Ben Hecht

#57. I do believe that there is a conflict between science and religion ... the spirit or attitude toward the facts is different in religion from what it is in science. The uncertainty that is necessary in order to appreciate nature is not easily correlated with the feeling of certainty in faith.

Richard P. Feynman

#58. Whilst on the subject of the spread of Buddhism in the West, I want to say that I have noticed some tendency towards sectarianism amongst new practitioners. This is absolutely wrong. Religion should never become a source of conflict, a further factor of division within the human community.

Dalai Lama XIV

#59. The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience ... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.

Carroll Quigley

#60. When I meet a new person, I don't see race or religion. I look deeper. We must learn to satisfy our conflicts peacefully and to respect one another.

Muhammad Ali

#61. I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions of faith, because they lack rational demonstration, must conflict with reason.

George H. Smith

#62. There can never be a conflict between science and religion, once you understand the spiritual knack of the human brain circuits.

Abhijit Naskar

#63. There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism.

Alvin Plantinga

#64. Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.

Henry B. Eyring

#65. There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#66. All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality ...

John Hume

#67. The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other.

John William Draper