“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people. — Stephen King 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
I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Organized religion a great disappointment. I don't recall Jesus asking for donations or charging a fee when teaching Spirituality. — Wandini Copy Share Image
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Organized religion and musicals present tenets to live by that don't entirely make sense but, on the whole, make people who believe… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and… — Christopher Hitchens 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'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. ... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Christians, be steadier in what you do, not blown like feathers at the wind's discretion, nor think that every water cleanses you...” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you… — Anandmurti Gurumaa Copy Share Image
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The English monarchy is at best symbolic, whereas the Saudi monarchy is a bloodline, but it's also showing itself as a very… — James Wasserman Copy Share Image
Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but… — Lily Montagu Copy Share Image
“The main pillar of organized religion, with few exceptions, is the subjugation, repression, even the annulment of women in the group. Woman… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Using your wealth to purchase other people’s loyalty is a game as old as humanity itself. Rich men use their wealth to… — Gregory F. Fegel Copy Share Image
“Often, when we are in trouble, or doubting, or struggling, we rely on others to carry us to God. Just as often… — James Martin Copy Share Image
“The soul theoretically is the purview of religion. But in today’s society, relatively few people look to religion to truly heal their… — Marianne Williamson 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
“Meanwhile, it needs to be recognized, and talked about more frankly, that for philosophy the elephant in the kitchen is organized religion.… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly and with intense interest I am glad… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Mankind will never know peace until the last politician is strangled to death with the entrails of the last priest.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
“One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.” — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe. — Kerry Thornley Copy Share Image
I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
My objection to organized religion is the premature conclusion to ultimate truth that it represents... — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“...people don't think in churches. [ Noyce on what bothers him most about organized religion. ]” — Robert Noyce Copy Share Image
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