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[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a…

— Muriel Beadle

Because religious institutions are not afraid to talk about love as a goal, they are likely to be more effective at providing community services.

— Michael Lerner

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.

— William Bennett

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

— Salman Rushdie

Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.

— Marianne Williamson

Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion…

— Marianne Williamson

I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think the Christian religion that I was brought up…

— Richard Gere

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness. We largely…

— Richard Rohr

The days of discriminating against religious institutions simply because they are religious must come to an end.

— George W. Bush

Christians in this country have found themselves under selective assault. God has, almost overnight, been removed from the educational, legal, and political institutions of…

— Daniel Lapin

So we're all living spirit. It's not about isms and schims or religions. Religions are almost like political institutions, but the heart of it…

— Surya Das

All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be…

— Michael Parenti

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

— Benjamin Disraeli

[T]he kingdom of God... is to be a political institution that shall hold sway over all the earth; to which all other governments will…

— B. H. Roberts