Quotes About Society

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.

Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.

Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.

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.

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

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

That religion may have served some necessary function for us in the past does not preclude the possibility that it is now the greatest impediment to our building a global civilization.

The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.

Religion is insanity by consensus.

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

We live in a climate of fear, and because of this whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion.

How many evils have flowed from 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

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.

Christianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still some power behind the religion, as sort of watered down as it can be.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

The popular culture still ridicules religion and often treats it like the plague.

Religion is collective insanity.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.