Quotes on Religion Politics

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

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. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

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.

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

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

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.