Religion Politics Quotes

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people...religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin!

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

I want to be a more serious-minded Christian, more detached from this world, more ready for heaven than I have ever been in my whole life. I want an ear that is sharp to know the voice of the enemy, whether it comes from religion, politics, or philosophy ... I would rather stand and have everybody my enemy than to go along with the crowd to destruction. Do you feel that way?

Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.

We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.

Across all countries and cultures surfers are connected not by nationality, religion, politics, age … but by their experience riding waves. This is a powerful experience both in the waves themselves and inside each surfer.

Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

It is only when someone cannot defend his opinion, and is not interested in believing the truth, that he will attempt to stifle discussion with good manners. Those who take religion, politics and sex seriously do not adhere to the general prohibition on discussing these topics. And they do not take offence when they are shown to be wrong. If you start to feel during a discussion, that you are not so much incorrect as insensitive, then you are probably dealing with a respectable bigot.

Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .

Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

A feminazi is a woman to whom the most important thing in life is seeing to it that as many abortions as possible are performed. Their unspoken reasoning is quite simple. Abortion is the single greatest avenue for militant women to exercise their quest for power and advance their belief that men aren't necessary.

Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.