Richard M. Weaver Quotes

No true and perfect human society can be conceived which is not governed by some supreme authority…. Do the sheep when they are all assembled together rule and guide the shepherd?

Where mystery begins religion ends.

Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.

To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.

Divinity is an emotion of being lifted out of yourself and being part of something much bigger than yourself that makes you go, 'Oh my God.' And that sense of awe? It's the second rule of science.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Theology is unnecessary.

Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

It doesn't matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There's something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now.

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy space?

I don't believe in God.

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

Nanny states are interested in social order. Daddy states are interested in public order.

The organization of order is not the exclusive monopoly of the State

As long as I live, I will not allow anybody to lead the country towards secularism.

As both Christianity and Judaism have done, Islam can not only survive but thrive in a secular state. Once disassociated from coercive power, it will witness a renewal of spirituality….The secular state has not killed religion; rather, it has put a brake on the state’s manipulation of religion. It took three centuries of efforts by many European philosophers and several revolutions for this fundamental nuance to be developed, accepted, and made understandable to the masses.

Religion and politics are inseparable. Without religion, political science can create only despotism or anarchy.

Quand me" me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineDieu est le seul e" tre qui, pour re gner, n'ait me" me pas besoin d'exister. Even if God did not exist, religion would still be holyand divine.God isthe only being who, inorder toreign, need not even exist.

Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.

Religion is defined as belief in and worship of a controlling power and atheism is precisely not that.

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for the well ordering and well-being of Society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage and protect the Ministers of it, paying them the highest publick Honours, that their Doctrines might thereby meet with the greater Respect among the common People.