Aids Quote by Gregory S. Paul

With increasing poverty, welfare dependency and violence in the United States, religion and religious organizations have an important role to play combating societal problems.

— Mercedes Schlapp

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

— James Madison

Government sponsorship of religious activity, including prayer services, sacred symbols, religious festivals, and the like, tends to secularize the religious activity rather than make…

— John M Swomley

Certainly good causes have sometimes been mobilized under the banner of religion, but you find the opposite, I think, more often the case.

— Steven Weinberg

Whatever religious people may say about their love of God or the mandates of their religion, when their behavior toward others is violent and…

— Charles Kimball

Civilization runs a greater risk if we maintain our present attitude to religion than if we give it up.

— Sigmund Freud

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

— George Washington

When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to…

— Hugo Black

Religions prosper in large part because of the communities that they create.

— Lawrence Wright

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine…

— Thomas Jefferson

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

— John Dewey

Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of…

— Roger Babson