“Dharma is not about believing in God. It’s about making the right choices, doing the right things and leading the right life.” — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price… — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
“If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Organized religion may be anathema on the political Left, but the need for the things religion provides - moral fervor, meaning, a… — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There is a fundamental difference between the financial enterprise and political machinations of an organized religion versus a mass of independent unaffiliated… — Gregory F. Fegel Copy Share Image
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Organized religion lies and tells us that the bridge between ape and man is that of a savior who will do the… — VD Copy Share Image
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
“Say what you want about organized religion, but man, they make cool windows.” — Alan Doyle Copy Share Image
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the True Self--and the full Christ Mystery (not the same as organized Christianity)--will always live in the backwaters of any empire… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction... — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is… — Emily Raboteau Copy Share Image
I don't follow any organized religion, but I do believe in the idea of god as a verb - being love and… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
