“I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's”
Mark Twain
“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost their power of reasoning”
Voltaire
“Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether its conclusions resemble what actually happens”
Ian Stewart
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
Anais Nin
“Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal,”
Carlos Fuentes
“In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other”
“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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