Religion Quote by Niccolò Machiavelli

“And as the observance of religious teaching is the cause of the greatness of republics, similarly, disdain for it is the cause of their…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Nor is there any valid reason to reject the idea of God or the notion of the sacred just because of the sickly expression…

— Alain de Benoist

“Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once thought to…

— Bertrand Russell

“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they…

— Aristotle

“we can't be secular till there is politics because it is a religion that hates every other religion...”

— Ranu Das

“...religion ceases to be religion when its poetic authority is recast as civic authority.”

— James P. Carse

“Religious people should always be wary of the ways in which political power is wielded and skeptical of how economic privileges are distributed. They…

— E.J. Dionne Jr

“since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it became the…

— Tom Robbins

“Religion provides the solace for the turmoil that it creates.”

— Byron Danelius

“will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religious. Nothing…

— Mark Twain

“Theocracies are hell.  A sign of a diseased culture.  For who speaks for the gods but the temples?  And the temples have their own…

— Terry Mancour