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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall. — Henrik Ibsen

Liberals want the family destroyed, they want religion destroned, because then you have loyalty directly to the state. — Ann Coulter

I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way. — Al Gore

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone. — Franz Grillparzer

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection. — Abraham Maslow

Heresy no longer existed within religion; it
was founded in the state. — Reinhart Koselleck

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape. — William Blum

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. — Ronald Reagan

The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing. — Ricardo Alarcon

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind. — Camille Paglia

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. — Felix Adler

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power. — Walter Jon Williams

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. — George Washington

The state is a bankrupt institution. The only alternative to this bankrupt 'humanistic' system is a God-centered government. — R.J. Rushdoony

Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up. — Irvine Welsh

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination. — W. A. Criswell

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery. — Pope Leo X

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality. — Tom C. Clark

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. — Thomas Paine

The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion. — Georges Rodenbach

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state. — Roger Williams

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

We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa. — Jimmy Carter

Our United States "State religion" has become Secular Humanism which has no "separation from the State. — James C. Campbell

Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel — Aja Monet

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. — Ambrose Bierce

The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded. — Pat Swindall

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens

Faith is not mere belief but is that state you attain when you send your will, words, thoughts, beliefs, and actions into orbit around a chosen goal — Agona Apell

I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden. — Bjorn Ulvaeus

Giv Herren sin Aere, giv Kongen sin Told. — Petter Dass

A people's theology reflects the state of it's children's bottoms. — Aldous Huxley

There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality. — Jeremy Bentham

The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire. — Pope Pius IX

Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either. — Mahatma Gandhi

NIRVANA- In the Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise, particularly to those wise enough to understand it. — Ambrose Bierce

Since the dawn of time, warring combatants have regularly reached for what support they could find to nerve their own side for battle. — Mark A. Noll

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. — Thomas Paine

Religion, by 'consecrating' the state, gives the people an added impetus to respect and regard their regime. — Edmund Burke

It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State. — Albert Einstein

Since all premodern state ideology was inseparable from religion, warfare inevitably acquired a sacral element. — Karen Armstrong

A religion that needs state power to enforce obedience to its beliefs is a religion that has lost confidence in the power of its Deity. — Russell D. Moore

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

If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion. — Sandra Day O'Connor

Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress. — Heinrich Heine

The unholy alliance of religion and politics collaborated in finding Jesus guilty. — Eugene H. Peterson

Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind. — Tony Blair

Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion. — John Cotton

I was raised Catholic. Guilt is my resting state. — Paul Doiron

If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god. — Stefan Molyneux

A soul in a state of grace need fear nothing from devils, for they are so cowardly that they feel from the gaze of a child — St-Therese De Lisieux

I figure if there is a God, She's good and surged right now about the state of things down here. — Hillary Jordan

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds. — Jonathan Sacks

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice. — Joseph Story

The separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government. — Anna Quindlen

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. — John Burroughs

My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics. — Mahatma Gandhi

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion. — Jonathan Swift