Quotes About State

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

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

The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.

It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

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.

Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone.

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.

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.

Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.

If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.

The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state.

Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. . . . We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.