Quotes About Politics

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

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

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

I'm an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

...balance the budget ? Tax religion.

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.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else's death.

Indeed, as long as a country has a culture a religion an ideology where Islam is dominant it will never be a democracy.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

We have had plenty of atheist presidents; they just wouldn't admit it.

That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel

We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.