Quotes About Religion Politics

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

Charles M. Schulz

#2. 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

#3. Comedy [deals] with a lot of the same areas where our defenses are the strongest - race, religion, politics, sexuality.

Chris Bliss

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

Erma Bombeck

#5. 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

#6. Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#8. I have to have an emotional connection to what I am ultimately selling because it is emotion, whether you are selling religion, politics, even a breath mint.

Gene Simmons

#9. Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.

Mel Gibson

#10. In the case of everything that belongs to the realm of sentiment, religion, politics, morality, the affections, and antipathies, etc. The most eminent men seldom surpass the standard of the most ordinary individuals.

Gustave Le Bon

#11. All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

James Mark Baldwin

#12. Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)

Robin R. Meyers

#13. We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.

Charles Kingsley

#14. I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.

Randy Bachman

#15. Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.

Jonathan Haidt

#16. The Countess was of a mind that dinner should provide one with respite from life's trials and tribulations. Thus, she could not countenance discussions of religion, politics, or personal sorrows at her table.

Amor Towles

#17. Now more than ever God's people must be committed to being gospel centered. Jesus can no longer be out there somewhere on the horizon as we look to culture, religion, politics, spirituality, or morality for our true north.

Mark Driscoll

#18. If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

Al Yankovic

#19. We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.

Mack Sennett

#20. No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

Lyman Beecher

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.

Jane Seymour

#25. But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.

Roger Williams

#26. 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

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

Albert Einstein

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

Abraham Lincoln

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

Nawal El Saadawi

#34. Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#35. 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

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

Richard Engel

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

Neil Postman

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Thomas Paine

#45. 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

#46. 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

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

Ann Coulter

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

Jerry Springer

#51. No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are.

Nick Cohen

#52. 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.

#53. Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Douglas Coupland

#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. Religion's just politics with higher stakes, Tak. You know that, you saw it in action on Sharya. No reason these people can't do the same when it comes to the crunch. These people are sheep. They'll do whatever their holy men tell them.

Richard K. Morgan

#56. 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

#57. Even if my neighbor doesn't understand my religion or understand my politics, he can understand my story.

Paulo Coelho

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. On the one hand you had people constantly fighting Hell; on the other, you had people constantly fighting Hell on earth.

Criss Jami

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.

Eric Cantona

#65. Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

Hilaire Belloc

#66. 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

#67. It cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#68. Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

Clare Balding

#69. When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen.

Cesar Chavez

#70. 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

#71. Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour."
{Source: A Green Desert Father}

Richard Mc Sweeney

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

Eugene H. Peterson

#73. 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

#74. Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.

Sean Combs

#75. Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

Giannina Braschi

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

August Bebel

#79. 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

#80. The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.

Plato

#81. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#82. 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

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

George Iles

#84. 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

#85. At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Booker T. Washington

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. I do not regard myself as a Christian politician. I regard myself as a politician who just happens to think religion matters. I would be appalled, absolutely appalled, to think religion drove anyone's politics in a secular democracy like ours.

Tony Abbott

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

Pope Francis

#90. We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

Richard Dawkins

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

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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

Taslima Nasrin

#93. No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital beds to battlefields, it is the iron that strengthens a man to confront his destiny.

Mike Corbett

#94. 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

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

Haruki Murakami

#96. 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

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

Jean-Michel Basquiat

#98. 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

#99. 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

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

Timothy Pina