Quotes about Knights Templar

Hugues de Payens

A handful of righteous warriors can prevail over hordes.

Jacques De Molay

Not one of us has betrayed his God or his country. I do confess my guilt, which consists in having, to my shame and dishonor, suffered myself, through the pain of torture and the fear of death, to give utterance to falsehoods imputing scandalous sins and iniquities to an illustrious Order, which hath nobly served the cause of Christianity. I disdain to seek a wretched and disgraceful existence by engrafting another lie upon the original falsehood.

The Inquisition had tortured De Molay and his fellow Templars forcing them to confess to blasphemy, homosexuality and other capital crimes. Finally De Molay was sentenced to be burned at the stake. At the last moment he confessed to having lied under torture.

Umberto Eco

Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.

Tariq Ali

Stories of the Crusades are still told in Moslem cafes and families as if they occurred yesterday.

In addition to the Muslim world during the Crusades losing control of the Holy City for the first time in 400 years, the Christians stabled their horses on the Al Axa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, two of Islam’s holiest places. In addition, the Crusaders, after taking the city, slaughtered most of the inhabitants—Muslims, Jews and even fellow Christians who were Eastern Orthodox—more than 30,000 in just a day or so. It was a reign of terror on a scale that even today, it is shocking to most. So where as to us the Crusades were an interesting of aberrant part of history, to many Muslims of the Middle East the thought or discussion of the Crusades is traumatic even today.

Hilaire Belloc

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

Bernard of Clairvaux

There is no distinction of persons among them, and deference is shown to merit rather than to noble blood.

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Bernard of Clairvaux

This is, I say, a new kind of knighthood and one unknown to the ages gone by. It ceaselessly wages a twofold war both against flesh and blood and against a spiritual army of evil in the heavens

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John Lothrop Motley

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

Knights Templar Quotes