Quotes About Power

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

The stallion and his mare, unbridled, with arrow-pattern, are worked on. the blue cloth before the door of religion and inspiration.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.

I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.

Religion controls inner space; inner space controls outer space.

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.

....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no power.

That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.

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

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.