Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

The mainstream is always under attack.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

Children are all foreigners.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Music is always a commentary on society.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.