“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.”
Jonathan Swift (Irish Author and Satirist of prose, 1667-1745)

“Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

“We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.”
Dalai Lama (Head of the Dge-lugs-pa order of Tibetan Buddhists, 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, b.1935)

“God has no religion”
Mahatma Gandhi (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)

“Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.”
Mahatma Gandhi (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)

“There is enough dynamic force in the New Testament if preached, to
blow every existing social institution to atoms”
Jim Bissett (in quoting from The New Century, a socialist newspaper based in Oklahoma 1913)

“Since the Good Book says: ‘The land is mine; it shall not be sold
forever,’ it is quite clear that capitalism has had a head-on
collision with Holy Writ, and that a bunch of fellows are in
possession of stolen property.”
Jim Bissett (in quoting from The New Century, a socialist newspaper based in Oklahoma 1913)

“In the work environment, if there is a lot of injustice and exploitation, then to passively tolerate it is the wrong response. The appropriate response really is to actively resist it, to try to change this environment rather than accept it.”
His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso (The Fourteenth Dalai Lama)

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