He allegedly stated that the intention of the United Buddhist Church of Viet Nam was not to undermine the State, but to enjoy freedom of religion.

(f) Other religions, religious groups and religious communities:

World Conference on Religion and Peace

You'd think a religion would help teach people how the ungodly operate.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish .

This is as though a religious man were to say—I cannot own myself a believer in religion, for there is “only one thing” I have borrowed from the believers—the belief in God.

The police must be as violent as that of Indostan or ancient Egypt (where every man was bound by a principle of religion to follow the occupation of his father, and was supposed to commit the most horrid sacrilege if he changed it for another), which can in any particular employment, and for several generations together, sink either the wages of labour or the profits of stock below their natural rate.