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We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

— Arlen Specter

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

— Charles de Secondat

We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.

— Vera Farmiga

I don't see any holy wars being fought in the name of Satan.

— Glenn Danzig

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

— Theodore Roosevelt

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

— Jeremy Gilley

Wars have always started over religion.

— Glenn Danzig

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

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

— Saint Augustine

✗Opposing Perspectives

Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.

— J. C. Ryle