I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
Quotes about crusades (12 Quotes)
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
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.
DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy have overrun the habitable world. The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude. The Dullards came originally from Boeotia, whence they were driven by stress of starvation, their dullness having blighted the crops. For some centuries they infested Philistia, and many of them are called Philistines to this day. In the turbulent times of the Crusades they withdrew thence and gradually overspread all Europe, occupying most of the high places in politics, art, literature, science and theology. Since a detachment of Dullards came over with the Pilgrims in the Mayflower and made a favorable report of the country, their increase by birth, immigration, and conversion has been rapid and steady. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. The intellectual centre of the race is somewhere about Peoria, Illinois, but the New England Dullard is the most shockingly moral.
The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.
People want someone whose top priority is local concerns, not national, partisan, ideological crusades,
It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
The religio-hucksterism surrounding the Schiavo case makes DeMille's Hollywood crusades look like amateur night. This circus is the latest and most egregious in a series of cultural shocks that have followed Election Day 2004, when a fateful exit poll question on 'moral values' ignited a take-no-prisoners political grab by moral zealots.
We give The Truth for Youth to teenagers in revival services, evangelistic crusades, television, radio and on the internet, ... The biggest distribution outlet is each August on American Family Radio.
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America and the introduction of African slaves in their place
It was not reason that besieged Troy it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world that inspired the crusades that instituted the monastic orders it was not reason that produced the Jesuits above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.