Control Quote by Bertrand Russell

“More people than ever before look to government as their best chance of securing well-being rather than as their inevitable enemy. Politics as a…

— John Morris Roberts

“What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much…

— John Stuart Mill

“Religious people should always be wary of the ways in which political power is wielded and skeptical of how economic privileges are distributed. They…

— E.J. Dionne Jr

“The greatest threat to religion in any society is not persecution, but rather apathy born of irrelevance.”

— Sherman A. Jackson

“Toleration means incomplete religious liberty.”

— John Bagnell Bury

“My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils of power.…

— Randall Balmer

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

— Tony Campolo

“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with…

— Jeremy Bentham

“The crimes of religion pale in comparison to those of secular regimes. This doesn't justify wrongs done in the name of Christianity, but it…

— Scott Klusendorf

“The concessions we have made to religious faith - to the idea that belief can be sanctified by something other than evidence - have…

— Sam Harris

Religion is often politics made sacred.

— Gloria Steinem

“It never before happened that the rich ruling and more educated minority, which has the most influence on the masses, not only disbelieved the…

— Leo Tolstoy