„I think my government are fascists. I feel that if we don't change from a society that worships money and power over to one that worships compassion and generosity, there is no hope for human survival this century.“

„The first principle of a Keyes administration, it will apply in foreign policy, it will apply in domestic policy, it will apply everywhere. There is a God, and we are not him! I will not join the Clinton Democrats who worship government as their god! I will not join the Dole Republicans who worship power as their god! I will not join the Forbes Republicans who worship money as their god! I will stand where the founders of this nation stood, and I will give my respect and allegiance to the creator God who is the ground of justice and who is the ground of all our human rights!“

—  Alan Keyes American politician 1950

Miscellaneous
Quelle: Alan Keyes, January 27, 1996 at the Louisiana Republican Convention. http://www.renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/96_01_27lagop.htm.

„I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.“

—  Donald Miller, buch Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality

Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)

„Worship is not an experience. Worship is an act, and this takes discipline. We are to worship ''in spirit and in truth.'' Never mind about the feelings. We are to worship in spite of them.“

—  Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me be a Woman

Quelle: Let Me be a Woman

„In estimating worldly values the Jew is not shallow, but deep. With precocious wisdom he found out in the morning of time that some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and that over these ideals they dispute and cannot unite--but that they all worship money; so he made it the end and aim of his life to get it. The cost to him has been heavy; his success has made the whole human race his enemy…“

—  Mark Twain, buch Concerning the Jews

Concerning the Jews (Harper's Magazine, Sept. 1899)

„O God! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell
and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise.
But if I worship You for Your Own sake,
grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty.“

—  Rabia Basri Muslim saint and Sufi mystic

as quoted in Khushwant Singh, The Freethinker's Prayer Book (2013), p. 35

„Americans are farcical when it comes to force majeure and money!
Two things that they worship.
You can't expect a democracy from a society like this.“

—  Gore Vidal American writer 1925 - 2012

2010s

„I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.“

—  Thomas Aquinas Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church 1225 - 1274

„Eons and unimaginable eons ago, before mankind existed on earth, only the waters existed. There was no land. And from the slime there sprang up a race of beings which dwelt in the sunken abysses of the ocean, inhuman creatures that worshipped Dagon, their god. When eventually the waters receded and great continents arose, these beings were driven down to the lowest depths. Their mighty kingdom, that had once stretched from pole to pole, was shrunken as the huge land masses lifted. Mankind came — but from whence I do not know — and civilizations arose. … These things hate man, for they feel that man has usurped their kingdom. Their greatest hope is to sink the continents again, so that the seas will roll over all the earth, and not a human being will survive. Their power will embrace the whole world, as it once did eons ago. They are not human, you see, and they worship Dagon. They want no other gods worshipped on Earth. Ishtar, dark Eblis, even Poseidon of the sunlit seas....“

—  Henry Kuttner American author 1915 - 1958

Short fiction, The Spawn Of Dagon (1938)

„Worship is not just something we feel, it is something we sweat.“

—  Donald Miller American writer 1971

Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)

„Those who worship God for the hope of gaining, they’re not real worshippers, they’re merchants. Those who worship God out of fear (of punishment), they’re slaves. And those who worship God to be grateful towards their creator, they are the free people, and their worship is a real one.“

—  Husayn ibn Ali The grandson of Muhammad and the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib 626 - 680

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 117
Religious-based Quotes

„The power of God is the worship He inspires…. The worship of God is not a rule of safety — it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.“

—  Alfred North Whitehead English mathematician and philosopher 1861 - 1947

Ch. 12: Religion and Science.
1920s, Science and the Modern World (1925)

„I don't need any support, advice, or compassion, because even if I am the most ruinous man, I still feel so powerful, so strong and fierce. For I am the only one that lives without hope.“

—  Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

„…the American people seemed to have no clearer idea than they. Indeed, the American people had no idea at all; they were wandering in a wilderness much more sandy than the Hebrews had ever trodden about Sinai; they had neither serpents nor golden calves to worship. They had lost the sense of worship; for the idea that they worshipped money seemed a delusion. Worship of money was an old-world trait; a healthy appetite akin to worship of the Gods, or to worship of power in any concrete shape; but the American wasted money more recklessly than any one ever did before; he spent more to less purpose than any extravagant court aristocracy; he had no sense of relative values, and knew not what to do with his money when he got it“

—  Henry Adams journalist, historian, academic, novelist 1838 - 1918

„I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.“

—  Ferdinand Marcos former President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986 1917 - 1989

in an interview on ABC
1965

„Mammonism is the sinister, invisible, mysterious reign of the great international money-powers. Mammonism is however also a mindset; it is the worship of these money-powers on the part of all those who are infected with the Mammonistic poison.“

—  Gottfried Feder German economist and politician 1883 - 1941

"Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money" (1919)

„I don't think you change Washington from the inside. I think you change it from the outside.“

—  Mitt Romney American businessman and politician 1947

2007-12-30
Mitt on Huck, McCain, Ann
NBC News
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2007/12/30/4429528-mitt-on-huck-mccain-ann
2012-09-21
2007 campaign for Republican nomination for United States President

„I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.“

—  Bertrand Russell logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist 1872 - 1970

Letter to Lucy Martin Donnelly, February 10, 1916
1910s

„I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society, they talk about survival of the fittest. But we're not animals. We're human.“

—  Natsuki Takaya Manga artist 1973

„It is like love; oh love should be
An ever-changing thing, —
The love that I could worship must
Be ever on the wing.“

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

April from The London Literary Gazette (5th April 1823)
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)