Top 152 Crusade Quotes & Sayings

The March of Dimes turned a disease not nearly as prevalent as childhood cancer into a national crusade. Polio was not that widespread.

It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

One of my uncles took me to my first movie in a cinema - 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.'

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

There is need for a crusade of manliness and purity to counteract and nullify the savage work of those who think man is a beast. And that crusade is your work.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

You [the employees] are involved in a crusade.

Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.

There was nothing that amazed me more than parents that could channel the loss of their child into a crusade to protect other people's kids.

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

I'm not on any crusade.

Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society launched an anti-Communist crusade that won the support of millions of Americans in the 1950s.

Animals in general have always been my passion, project, crusade - whatever you want to call it! The ocean is such a huge, beautiful thing that I feel like we all take for granted.

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

The life of a devotee is a crusade of which the heart is the Holy Land.

In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom, has always been the goal.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.

It should be underscored that our goal is not, and should not, be a crusade against the ICC but a solemn call for the organisation to take Africa's concerns seriously.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

We're carrying out a real crusade against corruption and impunity with a focus on white-collar crime.

What was the reason for invading Iraq' Was it a humanitarian crusade or an economic one' I would be inclined to say the latter. It was the same with the Civil War, because the landed gentry's money was being stolen by the king.

I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women of goodwill who do not want a Marxist future for themselves or their children or their children's children. This is not just a fight about national solvency. It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary brake on Socialism, but to stop its onward march once and for all.

The gun-control crusade today is like the Prohibition crusade 100 years ago. It is a shared zealotry that binds the self-righteous know-it-alls in a warm fellowship of those who see themselves as fighting on the side of the angels against the forces of evil. It is a lofty role that they are not about to give up for anything so mundane as facts - or even the lives of other people.

The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.

Systems and processes are essential to keep the crusade going, but they should not replace the crusade.

preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

There was one thing I was never going to do--no way: preach at a crusade!

As the ongoing industrial crusade to turn all earthly life to commercial purpose relentlessly impoverishes the biosphere and human culture, our living images of graceful possibility dwindle.

Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

A crusade is, simply put, something that's bigger than you are. It's a "cause" with an impact that reaches beyond your personal wants and needs.

This guy [Steven Lerner] is a pure anti-capitalist. He despises America. He is on a personal crusade.

They may not be conscripted against their will as the foot soldiers in a federal crusade.

This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education.

When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird!

This crusade to separate church and state is only one expression of my raison d'être. I'm an atheist, but I'm also an anarchist, and a feminist, and an integrationist.

The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.

What we need are mental and spiritual giants who are aflame with a purpose . . . We're a race ready for crusade, for we've recognized that we're a race on this continent that can work out its own salvation.

The notion of a non-religious Christmas is ridiculous. But so is the insistence on the part of Christians that politicians and retailers carry out their pro-Christmas crusade.

The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged by how good it makes its crusaders feel.

Religion and natural science are fighting a joint battle in an incessant, never-relaxing crusade against skepticism and dogmatism, against disbelief and against superstition, and the rallying cry in this crusade has always been, and will always be, 'On to God.'

Converting the war into an antislavery crusade was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part, and it resulted in a surge of voluntary recruits into the Union army. But this did not last. Northerners may have disapproved of slavery in the South but, once the bloodletting began in earnest, their willingness to die for that conviction began to wane. [...] Lincoln faced the embarrassing reality that he soon would have no army to carry on the crusade.

A good journalistic organisation upholds four values: inform, reflect, crusade, connect.

You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated hysteria as the Women's Liberation Movement.

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.

I have a crusade against fondant, also shortening. There's no reason why wedding cakes can't taste good if you know what you're doing.

Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade.

Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.

Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences.

I say we must have a movement that brings those troops home and launch a crusade to transform our school buildings, we launch a crusade to see to it that every citizen has adequate and affordable housing, we launch a crusade to make universal health care. We need not soldiers anymore in the world. We've had enough of them in western history.

We're on record. We're part of the crusade. We're not backing down.

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you.

It's my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.

America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation with the mind of a crusade