Jack Vance said this quote

If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.

~ Jack Vance

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

~ Jack Vance

I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!

~ Jack Vance

One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.

~ Jack Vance