Circles Quote by Voltairine de Cleyre

“First, societies lacking full religious liberty lack a critical restriction on state power. When citizens are free to have an ultimate commitment to something…

— Timothy Shah

The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a…

— Adolf Hitler

“More people than ever before look to government as their best chance of securing well-being rather than as their inevitable enemy. Politics as a…

— John Morris Roberts

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. It is impossible to rightly govern the…

— George Washington

What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore…

— Andrew Sullivan

Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking…

— Michael Burry

“Greedy people and power brokers mixing religion and politics to find advantage, trying to exploit good to build strength for themselves.”

— D.C. Macey

Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which…

— R. R. Reno

Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

If you don't put the spiritual and religious dimension into our political conversation, you won't be asking the really big and important question. If…

— Larry Brilliant

“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

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

— Friedrich Durrenmatt