Religion Quote by Edmund Burke

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

— Jeremy Bentham

“For rulers, religion is a great tool to rule the common people.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Politics and organized religion can often be mere exercises in the manipulation of the psyche.”

— Dan Santos

“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

In our decrees, it is definitely proclaimed that religion is a question for the private individual; but whilst opportunists tended to see in these…

— Leon V. DePoncins

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

— Walter Jon Williams

Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which…

— R. R. Reno

“Religion is to democracy as a bridle is to a horse. Religion moderates democracy because it appeals to an authority higher than democracy itself.5…

— Charles J. Chaput

“Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverence for truth and justice, for equality and liberality, and…

— Calvin Coolidge

“Separating religion from the state means that citizens will be able to celebrate their freedom in peace and the martyrs who died fighting for…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“This is how religions shore up dictators; by encircling them with words of power, words which the people are reluctant to see discredited, disenfranchised,…

— Salman Rushdie

“But the acts by which governments and societies repress and control the religious lives of people are mostly quotidian and unspectacular, taking place well…

— Timothy Shah