Politics Quote by Huston Smith

Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same…

— Huston Smith

“religion has been the historically most widespread and effective instrumentality of legitimation.”

— Peter L. Berger

"Religion" can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than "education" can be reduced to what happens in schools or "health…

— Harvey Cox

“outside of the structures of the existing institutionalized religions. There were always pockets of spirituality even in mind-dominated religions, although the institutionalized hierarchies felt…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Governments, churches, and educational institutes, once the keepers of order and social enlightenment, are now scrambling to remain relevant as our collective consciousness and…

— George Takei

“Organized religion kills the living beauty of God.”

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“Religion has had a free ride for too long and despite the growing murmurs of malcontents, the societal privilege afforded to faith remains a…

— Noah Lugeons

“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of…

— Andy Rooney

“Religion is the politics of spirituality.”

— Bill Olson

“religion is a neurological disorder for which faith is the only cure.”

— Frank Schaeffer

“This is the lesson history told me: when a religion gets so mired in bureaucracy that compassion takes second place to the law, and…

— Mercedes Lackey

I'm a big believer in institutions.

— Kenneth Frazier