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

— Walter Jon Williams

Religion mustn't interfere with the state - so one of the basic Democratic principles as we know it in America is the separation of…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

How can you have the religion of the sovereign be the religion of the state if the sovereign belongs to many religions? And it's…

— Noah Feldman

“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

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 separate from the institution of the state.

— Akbar Ganji

“The state can easily destroy religion, but religion cannot do the same with the state. Therefore, defend and secure the freedom of your state…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful…

— Stephen L. Carter

The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is…

— Ben Shapiro

The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their faith, take…

— Stephen L. Carter

The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical force and…

— Moses Mendelssohn

The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. .…

— Peter McWilliams