“Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after”

“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

“They have been promising us for a long time — in every culture — that they are going to take us to heaven. They promise heaven because they are making a hell out of this place.”

Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian

“No evil comes from the fear of hell, no good comes from the promise of heaven.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

“Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation.”

John Wayne (1907–1979) American film actor

“I promise to pay you before you die - but you have to promise not to die.”

Jim Baen (1943–2006) American publisher and editor

“After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?”

E.M. Forster book Maurice

“You are my heaven, and you will always be my enternal hell!
~ Darling”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“God will take you through hell, just to get you to heaven.”

T.I. (1980) American rapper, record producer, actor, and businessman from Georgia

“You go to Heaven once you've been to Hell”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter