“The Boer nation had become a theocracy, and would so remain. General” — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“You are the only thing standing between them and the theocracy they want. Diatribe” — Noah Lugeons Copy Share Image
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am no proponent of a theocracy. I am a secularist. I want an independent Iraqi government, not a lackey of Tehran. — Ayad Allawi Copy Share Image
For Pakistan, Kashmir represents the infeasibility of secular nationalism and underscores the need for an Islamic theocracy in the subcontinent. — Nyla Ali Khan Copy Share Image
The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“would rather die a free man than live as a slave to a theocracy, beneath a puppet king who has less faith… — David Dalglish Copy Share Image
“All governments are ordained by God, but none compare to government by God, theocracy.” — William R. Bowen Copy Share Image
“There may be a worse form of government than theocracy in the long run, but offhand I can't think of any.” — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
Islam's basic principles of belief, worship, morality, and behavior are not affected by changing times. Islam does not propose a certain unchangeable… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
We didn't start Theocracy because we wanted to be cool like so-and-so and make money. Our songs aren't trendy, and our lyrics… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
I am writing from the heart and having a fresh approach to things. We [Theocracy] are obviously not trying to musically re-invent… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
This is one thing that's very interesting, how the people on the left always talk about separation of church and state. When… — Allen West Copy Share Image
“As a concerned American colleague writes to me: 'Europeans need to know there is a traveling theo-freak show which actually advocates reinstatement… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What's most remarkable about the conservative activists who promote a small, hysterical group of conspiracy theorists claiming a Muslim theocracy is the… — Sarah Posner Copy Share Image
Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery, the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritocracy,… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
Maybe there is no good God. But there is definitely a devil, and his predominant passion is the religion of Protestant fundamentalists.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“All power has its derivation from God; the Russian Czar, however, was granted a special significance distinguishing him from the rest of… — Mikhail Nikiforovich Katkov Copy Share Image
I must admit that any favorable mention of the flying saucers by a scientist amounts to extreme heresy and places the one… — Frank B. Salisbury Copy Share Image
“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“But Mather's smile faded as he thought of what other provisions the charter contained. What would the godly say when they learned… — Marion L. Starkey Copy Share Image
“Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so?… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Given the religious nature of the Middle Eastern culture, how might a Middle Eastern democracy [be] structured? Will there be three or… — Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Copy Share Image
“Why does a young Muslim, in the prime of life, with a full life ahead, go and blow himself up in a… — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
“God's original purpose for government was to punish the evil and reward the good.” — William R. Bowen Copy Share Image
All it takes for America to become a theocracy is for nonbelievers to do nothing. — Judith Hayes Copy Share Image
We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head. — Gary DeMar Copy Share Image