Quotes on Religion And Politics

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

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

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

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

If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

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

We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.

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

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.

Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

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

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.

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.

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