Corruption Quote by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this…

— Russell Kirk

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

— Sam Ervin

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.

— Joe Lieberman

Religion is always in danger of growing apart from the people when its leaders forget to reflect carefully on their own behavior and come…

— Senora Roy

Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.

— Bill Vaughan

If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people -…

— E. M. Forster

For the last 250 years or so, secularists have waited patiently for the fulfilment of their prediction that religion would die out in the…

— Daniel Taylor

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

— Bill Maher

“any significant and lasting transformations of society require significant changes in the moral fiber of individual human beings; for as long as greed, hatred,…

— Dalai Lama XIV

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

— Frank Herbert

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

— James Madison

Things have become devalued to the point where people don't realize the repercussions, that they're devaluing themselves. It could end up bringing about chaos,…

— Marilyn Manson