Quotes About Politics

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.

The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.

It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.

When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.

Given the religious nature and the emotional power of Leftist values, Jews and Christians on the Left often derive their values from the Left more than from their religion.

In America the press rules the countrty; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practices.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.

We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.

For liberals, religion and politics mix as long as the results support their cause.

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.

The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one.

The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification.

As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.

The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

I don't bring religion into the square.