Quotes About Power

Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.

Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.

One People, one Reign, one Leader.

The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Dogs are gonna take over the world. It's a known fact for those who believe it, kinda like the Bible.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.

Music is my higher power

Fear is the mother of all gods.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

With the power of soul, anything is possible.

When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

Hurting people is my business.

In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

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

Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

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