Computers Quote by Mark Twain

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it…

— Mark Twain

The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.

— Pope Benedict XVI

The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.

— Pope Benedict XVI

“We must have a religion — it goes without saying — but my idea is, to have it cut up into forty free sects,…

— Mark Twain

The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“It is too easy to call the church political. The nature of fallen people is political. And they happen to make up the church.…

— Mea McMahon

The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with…

— Glenn Archer

Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix…

— Pope Francis

churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand…

— Georgia Harkness

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things:…

— Anonymous

A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

— Pope Benedict XVI