William Howitt Quotes

William Howitt: 2 quotes 0 likes

“Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other systems of worship, was bloodless, boundlessly beneficent, and — most marvelous of all — went to break all bonds of body and soul, and to cast down every temporal and every spiritual tyranny.”

William Howitt

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 60.

Faith , Soul , Christ , Selfishness

“The barbarities and desperate outrages of the so-called Christian race, throughout every region of the world, and upon every people they have been able to subdue, are not to be paralleled by those of any other race, however fierce, however untaught, and however reckless of mercy and of shame in any age of the earth.”

William Howitt

Colonization and Christianity. Quoted from The Capital by Karl Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch31.htm, and https://books.google.com/books?id=Zajh1WZa-OoC

People , Age , World

Similar authors

Joseph Conrad 127

Polish-British writer

Robert Southey 51

British poet

Benjamin Disraeli 306

British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Pri…

Charles Caleb Colton 38

British priest and writer

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 81

Austrian writer

Bettina von Arnim 1

German writer

Ludwig Börne 1