Religious Extremism Quotes

“You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away

“Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.”
― Zeena Schreck, Beatdom #11: The Nature Issue

“Moreover it is one of the greatest curses of religion that it takes only the very slightest twist of a knife tip in the cloth of a shirt to turn neighbours who have loved each other into bitter enemies.”
― Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings