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  • And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war.

    Children   War   Wife  
    "A visit to Osama bin Laden's lair" by Peter Bergen, www.cnn.com. May 3, 2012.
  • I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all.

    Brother   War   Murder  
  • We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't threaten us. It was a holy war, just as we've made one on terrorism and Islam, equally stupid and equally irrelevant.

    War   Stupid   Fighting  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

    "Hope, Despair and Memory". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1986.
  • Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.

    Country   War   Voice  
    Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.148, Cosimo, Inc.
  • If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.

  • Holy War is a contradiction of terms.

  • 'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

    War   Struggle   Mean  
  • I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.

    War   Eye   Writing  
  • Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.

    War   Giving   Nuisance  
    Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”
  • Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between Islam and the west. But a radical minority of Muslims firmly believes that Islam is under siege, and is committed to winning the holy war it has declared against the West.

    War   Believe   Winning  
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2010). “Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
  • ...the plan is to engineer events, real and staged, that will create enormous fear in the countdown years to 2012. This includes a plan to start a third world war either by stimulating the Muslim world into a "holy war" against the West or by using the Chinese to cause global conflict. Maybe both.

    Real   War   Years  
    David Icke (2003). “Tales from the Time Loop: The Most Comprehensive Exposé of the Global Conspiracy Ever Written and All You Need to Know to Be Truly Free”, David Icke Books
  • …the doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself.

    War   Buddhism   Reality  
  • There are no bystanders in a dharmayudh - it is a holy war.

    War   Bystanders   Holy  
  • Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war upon holiness, toward the end, into a sort of holy war.

    War   Philosophical   Son  
  • I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

    War   Writing   Needs  
  • It is not coincidental that for so-called religious fundamentalists - whether they are Western or Eastern, Muslim or Christian - rigid male dominance and "holy wars" are priorities. Or that competing sects of the same religion, such as Sunni and Shia, are at each other's throats. In these cultures, women are rigidly controlled by men.

    Source: www.psychologytoday.com
  • We know Jesus taught that if someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to the left. We know that Mohammed was sacked from his village and stoned at Ta'if, but he quietly left for Medina. If both of these men, beaten, and bloodied-the incarnations of their respective faiths-asked God to forgive their aggressors, then who were today's religious leaders to advocate holy war?

    Religious   Jesus   War  
  • Either we obey God's will who does not kill, or we make our own God's who allow us to make holy wars

    War   Doe   Holy  
  • So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more principled and compromising Israelis; while c) empowering and financing some of the creepiest forces in American and Israeli society; and d) heaping ordure on our own secular founding documents. When will the Justice Department and the Congress and the Supreme Court become aware of this huge and rank offense, which is designed to bring us ever nearer to holy war?

    War   Mean   Justice  
    "Your Tax Dollars at Work - in West Bank Settlements" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. July 12, 2010.
  • I think the evangelicals think they're in a holy war now.

    War   Thinking   Holy  
    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.

    War   Promise   Holy  
    1979 Of elections. The Americans.
  • I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

    War   Yoga   Thinking  
    "Mad German Auteur, Now in 3-D!" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. April 29, 2011.
  • Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.

    War   Years   People  
  • I believe in the holy Koran. It says we declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims and do not take part in wars, or in no way fashion or form take the lives of humans unless it's a holy war declared by God himself.

    Fashion   War   Believe  
    "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.
  • That both Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right are today focusing their attempts to regain control in a rapidly changing world on frantic efforts to maintain control over women, particularly over women's sexuality. Moreover, given their mythologies about "holy wars," it is also understandable that they should use "divinely approved" violence to do so.

    Christian   War   Women  
  • When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.

    War   Mean   Men  
    "The Problem of Ego Identity", Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1956.
  • [Those who accept] the Americanized, Constantinian paradigm [say:] We are of God; they are of the Devil. We are the light; they are the darkness. Our wars are therefore "holy" wars. With all due respect, this is blatant idolatry.

    War   Light   Darkness  
  • The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

    War   Israel   Enemy  
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.96, SCM Press
  • If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.

    Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.45, Modern Library
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