Concepts Quote by Carl Schmitt

“All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development - in which…

— Carl Schmitt

The notion of a secular state is a lie.

— John MacArthur

“The conception of secular state is derived from the liberal democratic tradition of west. No institution which is maintained wholly out of state funds…

— B.R. Ambedkar

But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization…

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

— Christopher Hitchens

“There is a term for this phenomenon—politicomorphism, or “the divinization of earthly politics”—and it is, to this day, one of the central features of…

— Reza Aslan

“If the State is to have reality as the ethical, self-conscious realization of spirit, it must be distinguished from the form of authority and…

— Karl Marx

It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated

— John Dewey

When I talk about secularism, I'm talking about theories today. To give you for example, one example: Those who consider themselves followers of Mosaddeq…

— Akbar Ganji

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

— Ulrich Beck

My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution.

— Narendra Modi

The more religious a state is, the more it resembles its religions example of hell on the earth.

— Ilkin Santak