Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.
There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
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.
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.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.
In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. S...
Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politic...
Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views - on politics, sexuality, religion, and many other contentious topics - than Robert Heinlein.
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...
Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.
There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'
As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.
I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
