Institutions Quote by Melford Spiro

“Religion can thus be defined as a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman order. This…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Religion can thus be defined as a system of human norms and values that is founded on a belief in a superhuman order.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The crucial historical role of religion has been to give superhuman legitimacy to these fragile structures. Religions assert that our laws are not the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

— Francis Arinze

The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything…

— Voltaire

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

A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is…

— Mircea Eliade

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea…

— William Robertson Smith

Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive. We all may talk about religion…

— Natalie Angier

When you look at organized religion of whatever sort whether it's Christianity in all its variants, or whether it's Islam or some forms of…

— Philip Pullman

Religion is simply one of a multitude of factors - economic political, cultural, social, tribal, racial - which shape and drive human action and…

— Mehdi Hasan

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

— Alfred North Whitehead