Re: SF Quotes <off topic>

Samuel Penn wrote:
> 
> In message <888610465.1117155.0@kryten.acs.bolton.ac.uk>
>	    Rob Paul <rpaul@worf.molbiol.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > How about one from real life:
> 
> One of my favourites then:
> 
> "Kill them all, and let God sort them out."
> 
> Said during one of the many Crusades, when someone was asked
> how to differentiate between the Christians and Muslims in
> a city that had just been taken by Christian forces.
> 
Hmmm...  that famous quote was from 12th century France during the
Albgesinian Crusade against the Cathars who were Christian heretics and
radicals.   

During the storming of the city of Beziers, the Papal Legate Arnold
Almaric uttered the words 
"Slay them all.. God will know his own."

Funnily enough the other cities involved surrendered very quickly

-- 
Barry Cadwgan ( BCADWGAN@FL.NET.AU )
http://www.users.fl.net.au/~bcadwgan/homepage.htm
"The end does not justify the means.  
 The end is the sum of the means,
 as the road travelled determines the destination." 
Valijon Starbringer (Hellflower Trilogy, Eluki bes Shahar)