Famous quotes containing the words secular and/or governments:
“As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.... The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (17701831)
“Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments dont, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. Its the same thing.”
—Graham Greene (19041991)