Quotes About Power

Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

We could plan a murder Or start a religion.

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

God has somehow placed into Christian's insides a special something, that extra inner reservoir of power that is more than a match for the stuff life throws at us.

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.