Body Quote by Larisa Alexandrovna

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

— E. B. White

If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.

— Khaled Abou El Fadl

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien…

— Flora Lewis

Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If you elect a religious party into power, you no longer have a democracy.

— Maysoon Zayid

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic…

— Armstrong Williams

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

— Barack Obama

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

— Jane Addams

“In a democracy government is the God.”

— Amit Kalantri

We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.

— Abdolkarim Soroush

Democracy and religion stand or fall together. Where democracy has been destroyed, religion has been doomed. Where religion has been trampled down, democracy has…

— Herbert H. Lehman