Quotes About Society

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.

Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

Religion is the opiate of the people.

The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire.

The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

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.

On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.

Drugs Are the Religion of the People ? The Only Hope is Dope.

That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society.

Consumerism is our national religion.

Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.

Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.