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Quotes About Society

Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.
~ Ben Lerner
The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
~ Karl Marx
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
~ Seneca
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
~ H. L. Mencken
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
~ Émile Zola
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.
~ Gustave Le Bon
Whatever the Left touches-- the arts; the economy; health care; the soul; religion-- it destroys or damages
~ Dennis Prager
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
~ Zig Ziglar
I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Young Americans are dropping out of religion at an alarming rate of five to six times the historic rate.
~ Robert D. Putnam
Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.
~ Steven Weinberg
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.
~ Jean-Michel Basquiat
If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
~ George Bernard Shaw
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