Quotes About Power

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

All over the world, belief in the supernatural has authorised the sacrifice of people to propitiate bloodthirsty gods, and the murder of witches for their malevolent powers.

Any religion whose messiah's name isn't recognized by Microsoft Word can't be that much of a threat.

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.

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

Money has no religion except itself.

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

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.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion.

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.

It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably.

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

Religion is the opium of the people.

On a day when secrets shall be outThe man shall have no power nor any helper.

The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power.

They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not less than emotional.

The mighty miracles of the Lord are marvellous!

I am a religious man! The only thing is, that in my religion, I am the God!

Human beings, to me, are rather like electrical appliances that need to be charged regularly, and prayer is a way of plugging into that charge.

Meditation is not a religion but a scientific way to enhance the concentration power of the mind.

The Y Chromosome, organized religion and money are the roots of all evil.