Government Quote by Frank Herbert

unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.

— Rigoberta Menchu

Religion is a powerful weapon that can be used because it persuades people to do things. And thus it can be used for good…

— Richard Dawkins

Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who have used…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Walter Jon Williams

I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To…

— Elie Wiesel

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.

— Bertrand Russell

It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle…

— Elie Wiesel

Religion is often politics made sacred.

— Gloria Steinem

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

— Roger Williams

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

— William Penn

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

— Jeremy Bentham

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

— Hugo Black