Charismatic Quote by Malcolm Gladwell

Take, say, the solidarity movement in Central America, which I think is what you probably had in mind. To a large extent, it comes…

— Noam Chomsky

Organized religion is the unholy mutation of faith

— Boaz Zippor

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick…

— Jesse Ventura

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

Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for…

— Saul Alinsky

What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

— Eric Hoffer

Certainly good causes have sometimes been mobilized under the banner of religion, but you find the opposite, I think, more often the case.

— Steven Weinberg

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

— Nancy Pearcey

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick…

— Jesse Ventura

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

— Sean Durkin

Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality,…

— Erich Fromm

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

— Kerry Thornley