Quotes About Politics And Religion

#1. Politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

Roseanne Barr

#2. Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.

Albert Einstein

#3. As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

Stephen King

#4. Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes.

Christine Quinn

#5. The difference between politics and religion is that the first makes it legal to hate, and makes the love of the second illegal.

Rebecca McKinsey

#6. Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

George Iles

#7. Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

Bill O'Reilly

#8. I do not want to end up with an American style of politics, with us going out there beating our chest about our faith. Politics and religion - it is not that they do not have a lot in common, but if [religion] ends up being used in the political process, I think that is a bit unhealthy.

Tony Blair

#9. Food-- like sex, politics, and religion-- is an intensely personal, emotional, and complicated subject.

David Kirby

#10. They argued about the weather, sports, sex, war, race, politics, and religion; neither of them knew the subjects they debated, but it seemed that the less they knew the better the could argue.

Richard Wright

#11. Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

William H Gass

#12. Party politics and religion now substituting for class conflict.

Howard Zinn

#13. Then thre is Brian. It's been a slow-grow love with its roots in our friendship. We disagree about everything that's not important, like politics and religion, but agree on everything that is important, like where the dustpan and brush should live, and his sons' girlfriends.

Kate Kerrigan

#14. Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#15. The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Christopher Lasch

#16. It was politics and religion, in van Dyck's private view, that made men dangerous. Trade made them wise.

Edward Rutherfurd

#17. If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it's not even up for debate. An artist at least creates things, puts things into the world. Where as these other people are destroying things, taking things out of the world.

Marilyn Manson

#18. Lucia opened the door. "They say not to discuss politics and religion on the first date."
"Well, then." I gave her a huge smile. "We're screwed.

Jennifer Lane

#19. Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

Daniel Dennett

#20. I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex and puzzling. But then I found I was thinking about a number of themes, one of which has to do with politics and religion.

Elaine Pagels

#21. In Elizabethan England or classical Athens ... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.

Diane Paulus

#22. Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Christopher Lasch

#23. It just so happened that they agreed on politics and religion. It was precisely that agreement that has caused most observers to associate them with one another.

Joseph Pearce

#24. Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'

Prince

#25. Politics and religion are topics that people tend to stay away from in their conversations, because they're polarising. But they are important topics, so they should be discussed the most, so we should know each other's opinions on them.

Matt Lindland

#26. Two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind - politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

Mark Twain

#27. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

Bertrand Russell

#28. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

Jonathan Haidt

#29. From Elisha Comes to Red Horse:
I leave their politics and religion be. Folks can think the way they want, act the way they please, even to acting the fool. All I ask is they don't make too much noise and don't interfere with other people.

Louis L'Amour

#30. Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

Frank Herbert

#32. The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

Lord Hailsham

#33. The politics of trans-identity seeks to move from the _politics of singular identity_ to the _politics of multiple solidarities_ across various identities without abandoning one's personal attachments and commitments to the group that one finds significant.

Namsoon Kang

#34. Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Abraham Lincoln

#35. There is absolutely no difference between religion and politics at all in Jesus' time. In other words, every seemingly religious word that came out of Jesus' mouth had very clear and unmistakable political connotations to it.

Reza Aslan

#36. Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

Thomas Jefferson

#37. The idea is that human culture as broadly defined
art, politics, technology, religion, and so on
evolves in much the way biological species evolve: new cultural traits arise and may flourish or perish, and as a result whole institutions can belief systems form and change.

Robert Wright

#38. The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

John Cornyn

#39. The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.

Nawal El Saadawi

#40. When a politician spends a million on himself, we rally and call him a thief. But when a cardinal spends the same amount on his attire, we kneel down and kiss his hand.

Justin Villanueva

#41. Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.

Richard Engel

#42. The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.

John McCain

#43. 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 is the essence of tyranny.

R. R. Reno

#44. I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.

Pope Francis

#45. Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for mixing religion and politics?

Gary DeMar

#46. The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.
[Letter objecting to the use of government land for churches, 1803]

James Madison

#47. Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

Henry Ward Beecher

#48. Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed
and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

Thomas Paine

#49. The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#50. Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition.

Ann Coulter

#51. Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gullible should be on their guard, however, since this endearing quality frequently masquerades as wit.

Mike Corbett

#52. Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of the society's art and politics, the framework of its commerce, and the stuff of its religion.

Lewis H. Lapham

#53. A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle.

#54. If people call me Christian, not from the standpoint of religion but from the standpoint of social vision, I declare that I am a Christian.

Fidel Castro

#55. The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

Bertrand Russell

#56. We live in a global community and we can't really remain isolated. I believe that when we hold a very narrow view about our attitudes of politics or culture or religion, then we cut out the opportunity to really engage with other points of view.

Robert Kiyosaki

#57. In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

George Orwell

#58. My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.

Grace Jones

#59. The chief danger of the 20th century will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.

William Booth

#60. We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for reasons of ideology, politics, religion, or personal taste.

William R. Brody

#61. Things are in the wrong place. Religion is in the box where science used to be. Politics is on the shelf where you thought you left science the previous afternoon. Entertainment seems to have knocked over and spilled on everything.

Charles P. Pierce

#62. There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people ... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin.

Charles M. Schulz

#63. The unholy alliance of religion and politics collaborated in finding Jesus guilty.

Eugene H. Peterson

#64. I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy ... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

Jose Mujica

#65. Across all countries and cultures surfers are connected not by nationality, religion, politics, age ... but by their experience riding waves. This is a powerful experience both in the waves themselves and inside each surfer.

Shaun Tomson

#66. Art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent. I see this as misguided and, in fact, a way of subverting the powerful voice art can be in global discussions about politics, economics, society, culture, religion and international relations.

Aman Mojadidi

#67. Any ideology that places more emphasis on winning converts than on sound philosophy is sadly misguided. By this reasoning, all of our political parties and most of our religions are sadly misguided.

Michel Templet

#68. Making a wrong choice in the leadership would be the end of mankind when run by the immature contestants, but from the divine's glory it is to verify if the mankind is really serious of keeping the planet earth by apprising and enhancing the consciousness.

Vishal Chipkar

#69. Religion, when realized truly, can provide an extremely accurate moral compass to the human conscience, while politics on the other hand, when utilized properly can ensure the wellbeing of the society.

Abhijit Naskar

#70. Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.

Beverly LaHaye

#71. My final thought now is that as in religion and the arts, so in politics; if men do not balance their feelings and intelligence they lose command of both - and worse still, of their object.

Sean O'Faolain

#72. Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

Pope Francis

#73. Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics ... Religion is merely a matter between man and God.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#74. Even today, the politics of religion does not allow the subcontinent to become civilized and its people to become truly educated.

Taslima Nasrin

#75. If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

Jonathan Swift

#76. We do not hold that doctrine gives rise to awakening but rather that the individual awakenings come first.

Haruki Murakami

#77. The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines.

Michael Eric Dyson

#78. Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Erma Bombeck

#79. Expect the unexpected in life, love, religion, politics and many more such drivers for humanity. These will ask you to fight and you need courage to fight them.

Santosh Kalwar

#80. SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

#81. In this respect the differences between the USA and the USSR are those of evangelical dinosaurs competing for domination on one small planet: the first deifies Jesus Christ, the other Karl Marx. Neither has much practical interest in what those two sincere and hard-working fellows actually preached.

Edward Abbey

#82. Politics, religion and arrogance are problems of society but being a fanatic in any...makes you a danger to humanity.

Timothy Pina

#83. The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.

Lyle W. Dorsett

#84. The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily laden with emotion that discussion can quickly turn to shouting. Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

John C. Danforth

#85. Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Eleanor Clift

#86. If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

Thomas Jefferson

#87. I have to remember, too, that sex is one of those areas - like religion and politics - where otherwise decent and rational people may have intense, irrational feelings.

Oliver Sacks

#88. Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

Anita Roddick

#89. Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.

Mahatma Gandhi

#90. Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

Mira Grant

#91. I still lack a political, religious, and philosophical world view. I change it every month, so I'll have to limit myself to the description of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.

Anton Chekhov

#92. In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

Marilyn Manson

#93. I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

Mark Twain

#94. I believe _cosmopolitanism_ can be an effective discourse with which to advocate a politics of _transidentity_ of overlapping interests and heterogeneous or hybrid subjects in order to challenge conventional notions of exclusive belonging, identity and citizenship.

Namsoon Kang

#95. You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics. If you ever find an Irishman who is wishy-washy on any one of those, you can make up your mind to it he is not the true article at all.

Mary Deasy

#96. Leaders that wear the largest hats have few armies to attack a land so this leads them to be sly and cunning as they extend their hand.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#97. These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.

Anthony De Mello

#98. For liberals, religion and politics mix as long as the results support their cause.

Gary DeMar

#99. I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.

Mohsin Hamid

#100. She imagines the cocoa brown of Nnedi's eyes lighting up, her lips moving quickly, explaining that riots do not happen in a vacuum, that religion and ethnicity are often politicized because the ruler is safe if the hungry ruled are killing one another.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie