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My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics. — Christopher Hitchens

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement. — Soren Kierkegaard

Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins ... — T. Rafael Cimino

The only truths worth arguing about are those truths that could prevent or lead to circumstances that may bite us in the rear sooner or later. — Criss Jami

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar. — Abraham Lincoln

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion? — Andrew Sullivan

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people ... — T. Rafael Cimino

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life. — Beatrice Webb

A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power. — Thomas Wolfe

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. — Hans Kung

Christianity is a religion. Not a political ideology. — James Clavell

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion. — Henry Cabot Lodge

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

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion. — Andrew Greeley

Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes. — Kjell Magne Bondevik

Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill. — Lord Byron

I will be a president of all Bulgarians, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion or political affiliations. — Georgi Parvanov

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. — Anais Nin

If terrorism has no religion then intolerance has no country either — Subhasis Das

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting. — John Lennon

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world? — Edgar Quinet

I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena. — Nikki Haley

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. — Juan Antonio Samaranch

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument. — Christopher Hitchens

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live. — Mark Twain

Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting. — D. Patrick Miller

Politics must not be separated from religious values; religion must not be separated from political responsibility. — Joel Hunter

I've never voted. I've never voted yet although I could have voted for the last ten years. — John Lennon

When religion is manipulated for political gain, faith loses its prophetic stance. — Jim Wallis

I understand religion is a walk, it's a journey. And I fully recognize that I'm a sinner, just like you. — George W. Bush

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques. — Jean-Francois Cope

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them. — Michel De Montaigne

In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days. — John Lennon

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority. — Tavis Smiley

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control. — Mario Bunge

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

To say that atheism is not a religion is the equivalent of saying anarchy is not really a political creed — Bo Jinn

In Islam religion and politics cannot be separated. Unlike other religions, Islam is political by its very nature. — Ali Sina

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people ... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press. — Fred Barnes

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. — Robert A. Heinlein

You can't believe that AIDS is a curse from God against Gays without accepting that Lyme Disease is a curse from the same God against Deer Hunters ... — T. Rafael Cimino

Whereas the consolations of religion are mainly personal, the burdens are social and political as well as personal. — A.C. Grayling

The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another. — C. Northcote Parkinson

Fear mankind most when he fights with a consuming passion for what he perceives to be true." ~ Demo Cratia. — Farah Evers

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues. — Jeanne Shaheen

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo. — John Lennon

When Numa died, Rome by the twin disciplines of peace and war was as eminent for self-mastery as for military power. — Livy

Of one thing we can be certain: every person we see - no matter the race, religion, political beliefs, body type, or appearance - is family. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Do you prefer to be with people who glow with love and compassion or those who burn with anger fueled by religious doctrine or political ideology? — Jeff Rasley

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian. — Laurens Van Der Post

Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body. — George Berkeley

What each of us perceives and acts upon as true has much to do with our situation, social, political, cultural, religious, or philosophical. — Elaine Pagels

We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine-and potentially evil. — John Lennon

Tocqueville writes that, for Americans, religion must be regarded as the first of their political institutions. — Dinesh D'Souza