Criticism of Religion - Corrupt Purposes of Leaders

Corrupt Purposes of Leaders

Many criticisms focus on the purposes of the leaders of the religions, rather than on the religious doctrines.

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Famous quotes containing the words corrupt, purposes and/or leaders:

    All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.
    Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)

    Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measures by results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)