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“The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their time and energy to shape the various institutions - social, economic, and political - of the common life.”

People Giving Political Faith Energy Nations Social Church Common Economic Inspire Shapes Institutions Various Adequate Time And Energy Common Life

Book:On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society

Source: On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society

“I have no faith in political arithmetic.”

Political Faith Mathematics Math Mathematical Arithmetic

Author:Adam Smith

“Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.”

Political Religion Faith Jesus Ordinary Jesus Christ Ruins Resurrection Thick Disciple Rock And Roll

Book:Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon

Source: Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon

“Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.”

Kind Shows Political Faith Politics Moral Confidence Intellectual Capacity

Author:George McGovern

“What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.”

Looks Political Faith Religious Imagine Movement One Day Political Will

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?”

People Ifs Should May Done Political Faith Liberty Moral Masters Destruction Ties Proportion Relaxed Deities Despotism Submissive

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.”

Political Values Faith Freedom Democracy Effects Taste Tests Medicine Dissent

Author:J. William Fulbright

“...in place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power, a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is possible. People of all faiths need to shape a political and social movement that reaffirms the most generous, peace-oriented, social justice-committed, and loving truths of the spiritual heritage of the human race.”

“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”

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Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study