Mean Quote by Walter Jon Williams

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

Power is the goal of religion in general.

— Norman Lear

“Our forefathers understood that if you let one religion control “THE STATE,” they typically subjugate and destroy other competing religions that are different from…

— Lee Vickers

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

— Moses Mendelssohn

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

— Frank Herbert

The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . .

— Swami Vivekananda

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

— Glen Cook

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

— Sam Ervin

Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.

— Gore Vidal

Religion means goal and way, politics implies end and means. The political end is recognizable by the fact that it may be attained--in success--and…

— Martin Buber

“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