"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so."
― Robert A. Heinlein
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Religion
More From Robert A. Heinlein
- "When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives."
- "The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
- "A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill."
More In Religion
- "Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work."― Orison Swett Marden
- "Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people."― John Desmond Bernal
- "I was sent to a nice Church of England girls’ school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary – prior to marriage."― Kate Adie