Quotes about Power
There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.
- Ayn Rand
The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.
- Georgia Harkness
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
- CS Lewis
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
- Martin Luther
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.
- Joseph Addison
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
- Eugene Peterson
Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.
- Philip Appleman
The real goal of Christianity is not to create a religion about God, but that we would actually know Him, experiencing firsthand the wonders and power of His incomparable life.
- Francis Frangipane
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.
- Elie Wiesel
If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
- Euripides