Authority Quote by Tobias Forge

The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting…

— Anonymous

One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric…

— Stephen L. Carter

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

— Julian Casablancas

“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

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

“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

There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.

— Mark Durie

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based…

— Dave Davies

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

— Elizabeth Joan Smith

Religion is often politics made sacred.

— Gloria Steinem

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

— Mitt Romney