Attempting Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Religion is often politics made sacred.

— Gloria Steinem

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

— Vladimir Lenin

I think, when you become a politician, if you talk about religion too much, you're pandering or something.

— Amy Chozick

Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of…

— Lord Hailsham

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

When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

— Elizabeth Joan Smith

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

— James Gibbons

“There is a term for this phenomenon—politicomorphism, or “the divinization of earthly politics”—and it is, to this day, one of the central features of…

— Reza Aslan

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

— Joyce Cary

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils of power.…

— Randall Balmer