Quotes About Authority

Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

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

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

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

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

SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.

When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

One People, one Reign, one Leader.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

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.

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

The Church does not dictate the policies of the nation. The Church proclaims the truth of God to which all these policies must conform.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

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