Lord/religion

Famous quotes containing the words lord and/or religion:

“Superior people remain kind and just even in poverty, but lowly people who become rich lord it over others.”
—Chinese proverb.

“But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonised, the religion cannot be healthy?”
—Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)