Religion And Politics Quotes - Page 2

• When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

  Frank Herbert

  People, Gathering, Cliffs

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• In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Matter, Violent

  Vincent Price (2016). “I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography”, p.271, Open Road Media

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• If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Religious, Religion

  "Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations".

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• You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atheist

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• There is absolutely no difference between religion and politics at all in Jesus' time. In other words, every seemingly religious word that came out of Jesus' mouth had very clear and unmistakable political connotations to it.

  Reza Aslan

  Religious, Jesus, Differences

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• For liberals, religion and politics mix as long as the results support their cause.

  Gary DeMar

  Christian, Religious, Long

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• It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Life, War

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Revolt in 2100”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• Every civil government is based upon some religion or philosophy of life. Education in a nation will propagate the religion of that nation. In America, the foundational religion was Christianity. And it was sown in the hearts of Americans through the home and private and public schools for centuries. Our liberty, growth, and prosperity was the result of a Biblical philosophy of life. Our continued freedom and success is dependent on our educating the youth of America in the principles of Christianity.

  Noah Webster

  Success, Bible, Education

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• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

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• It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!

  Unknown

  Bible, God, Education

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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• I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because we don't model this discourse at the dinner table and at Thanksgiving, we don't know how to do it well and we're not teaching our children about the world and about how to discuss it.

  Julianna Baggott

  Children, Believe, Teaching

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Believe, Second Chance

  Autobiography ch. 78 (1959)

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• Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.

  Beverly LaHaye

  Christian, Biblical, Government

  "Watch the Right: The Amazing Rise of Beverly LaHaye". Ms. magazine, February 1987.

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• I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don't hurt anyone else in the process.

  Barry Goldwater

  Inspirational, Life, Hurt

  Barry Morris Goldwater, C. C. Goldwater (2007). “The Conscience of a Conservative”, p.129, Princeton University Press

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• The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

  Bertrand Russell

  Punishment, Roots, Evil

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.147, Routledge

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• We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Believe, Practice, Understanding

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• Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Mom, Running, Arena

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• The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

  Bertrand Russell

  Passion, Opinion, Critical Thinking

  Sceptical Essays "Introduction: On the Value of Skepticism" (1961)

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• Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Peace, Military

  Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

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• In Islam religion and politics cannot be separated. Unlike other religions, Islam is political by its very nature.

  Ali Sina

  Political, Islam

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

  George Washington

  Religious, Truth, Freedom

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• Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

  James Madison

  Religious, Atheist, Ignorance

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• The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace, in the true meaning of the word, for which we all long. . . . There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women in democratic societies cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Faith, Christian, Hope

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• In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.

  Julia Child

  Fighting, Ideas, Blood

  Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme (2006). “My Life in France”, p.184, Anchor

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• I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.

  John Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

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