“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief. — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why? — Kerry Thornley Copy Share Image
“I mused about the human phenomenon that went by the title “organized religion.” What, I wondered, was disorganized religion?” — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality. — Dave Davies 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
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
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive… — Luke Ford Copy Share Image
To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements gives us organized religion, but to achieve… — Sean Kamali Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific - that is, truthful -… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
So Marxism, Freudianism: any one of these things I think is an irrational cult. They're theology, so they're whatever you think of… — Noam Chomsky 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
The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Tribalism, after all, is part of our evolutionary DNA. The need to identify with a group, to belong and commune with like-minded… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Although every organized religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Gandhi said it; Frederick Douglass said it. A lot of people have probably said 'It's not Christ that I have a problem… — Lecrae Copy Share Image
“I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely to be entirely… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds,… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
“The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
“This is often the primary difference between him and so many of those of us who follow him. When we encounter the… — John Pavlovitz Copy Share Image
“The fact is that life is like the river: endlessly moving on, ever seeking, exploring, pushing, overflowing its banks, penetrating every crevice… — J. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“As George MacDonald was so fond of pointing out, not one word in the New Testament implies that vindictiveness and wrath are… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
“Cellar Christians!" Foyle exclaimed. He and Robin peered through the window. Thirty worshipers of assorted faiths were celebrating the New Year with… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“Let us first and foremost look into what Christ himself said on the matter — for those of us who are of… — M.W. Sphero Copy Share Image
“Politics and organized religion can often be mere exercises in the manipulation of the psyche.” — Dan Santos Copy Share Image
If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
