Institutions Quote by Edgar Quinet

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

— Gary Hamel

I ascertain that religion was once the journey of consciousness finding truth within the planes of existence, but has since become the opposite, just…

— Anonymous

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

— Andrew Sullivan

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places of believing practices, but for this very reason, they seem to have…

— Michel de Certeau

Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself - a thing sacred in its institutions and ends.

— William Penn

Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“There is a term for this phenomenon—politicomorphism, or “the divinization of earthly politics”—and it is, to this day, one of the central features of…

— Reza Aslan

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

— Octavia E. Butler

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

— Walter Jon Williams

Religion [is] the basis and foundation of Government

— James Madison