Top 1200 Religion And Politics Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

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

The one eternal religion is applied to the opinions of various minds and various races. There never was my religion or yours, my national religion or your national religion; there never existed many religions, there is only the one. One infinite religion existed all through eternity and will ever exist, and this religion is expressing itself in various countries in various ways.

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

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

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

Religion is not something I like to talk about publicly. One reason is the politics, but also I think spirituality is deeply personal.

Dalai Lama once said that 'My religion is simple. My religion is kindness.' This is a great thought! Humanity has never seen and will never see any religion better than this! Seek no religion other than the religion of kindness!

The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

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

I wasn't any good at sports, but I could name all the presidents by the time I was six. I've always been very interested in politics and in religion.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.

I like to call the Republicans the Christian Brotherhood of the U.S. so that my fellow Americans recognise the line that connects their mix of religion and politics with their Muslim equivalent in Egypt.

Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason, transcendent being). But the church is no longer adequate as a means of affording experience of the transcendental, and of making religion real - and so art has been transformed from a means into the sole provider of religion: which means religion itself.

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.

People always said you shouldn't get in politics and talk about politics. But I believe the politics are all around us.

In politics things change, in politics timing is important, and in politics, how I move, I don't tell you.

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.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

In America the press rules the countrty; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practices.

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

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

I've got friends who totally disagree on politics, religion, cultural things, but at the core, we're the same people.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

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

The only real shaming I've ever experienced has been from other gay people when I reveal my politics or my religion.

I've never seen a professor of religion on television before, and I thought that was fascinating. The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.

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

I was known to spout off about [ politics and religion] sometimes, especially in my drinkin' days! It was pretty dangerous actually.

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

The black people in this country are taught that their religion and the best religion is the religion of Islam, and when one accepts the religion of Islam, he's known as a Muslim.

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

The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur. It is like putting nitroglycerine in a Waring blender.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Obama is the rare Democrat who talks easily about faith and values and who does so without upsetting those offended by the mixture of religion and politics.

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have been shown to be in error.

There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.

Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

Any religion which will sacrifice a certain set of human beings for the enjoyment or aggrandizement or advantage of another is no religion. It is a thing which may be allowed, but it is against true religion. Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags; a religion that would allow us to escape from our miserable human condition; a religion in which contact with God spares us all strife, all uncertainty,all suffering and all doubt; in short, a religion without a cross

The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

I've got no problem with religion if you're going to use it for the good, like Gandhi or Martin Luther King. But that's rarely the case when it comes to politics. It's usually used as a con.

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

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he 'lives' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

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

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

I'm interested in representation that falls outside of what would be socially appropriate, or acceptable, or beautiful. The world is going through a very fundamentalist moment. You have right-wing politics and misogyny and religion employed together everywhere - here in the US, with issues like abortion. Religion is a very fraught and complicated topic, but at the same time, like all grand historical narratives, there is a potential for challenging, or rethinking the kinds of subjectivities that these meta-narratives produce.