Quotes About Society

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

I am not advocating a morality based on evolution.

...balance the budget ? Tax religion.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

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

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.

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

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

Religion is civilization, the highest.

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.