A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.
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Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.
Those who think religion has nothing to do with politics understand neither religion or politics... The things that will destroy us are: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality.
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
I don't believe in religious tests, and I don't believe my religion is all that important to the people I represent. And I think there's too much religion in politics.
Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.
The First Amendment...does not say that in every respect there shall be a separation of Church and State....Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other - hostile, suspicious, and even unfriendly....The state may not establish a 'religion of secularism' in the sense of affirmatively opposing or showing hostility to religion, thus preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.
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.
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
Politics might be religion for the Left, but conservatives understand there is more to life than politics.
Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
So no, I’m not too big on religion...and not very fond of politics or economics either...And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?
In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan, he would not have been burnt by Calvin.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.
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.
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