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Quotes About Politics

Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.
~ Noam Chomsky
The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.
~ James Buchanan
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?
~ Stephen King
Liberals want the family destroyed, they want religion destroned, because then you have loyalty directly to the state.
~ Ann Coulter
There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.
~ David Schuller
Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.
~ Albert Einstein
I love religion but I don't need it for votes.
~ Arvind Kejriwal
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
~ Carlos Fuentes
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.
~ Benazir Bhutto
In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
~ George Orwell
Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition.
~ Ann Coulter
When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.
~ Sam Ervin
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
~ John Adams
Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.
~ John Steinbeck
Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for the 'remaking' of the Reich as they call it.
~ Adolf Hitler
If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.
~ George Carlin
Islam is not a religion, but an imperialist ideology like communism or fascism.
~ Geert Wilders
For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.
~ Ronald Reagan
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.
~ Jurgen Habermas
The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.
~ Aneurin Bevan
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
~ Russell Baker