Quotes of: Organized-religion Keyword

If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.

Kerry Thornley

Organized religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme.

Bernard Katz

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

Luke Grimes

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

Will Smith

The Y Chromosome, organized religion and money are the roots of all evil.

Family

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

Jewel

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

Kerry Thornley

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

Jesse Ventura

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Neil Young

In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

Richard Rohr

I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.

Saving June

One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.

Hugh Hefner

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

Dave Davies

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

John Henrik Clarke

The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

The spirituality that I experience sometimes touches on religion, in that I resonate with the thread of continuity that permeates through all religions. But in terms of it being a concretized, organized part of my life, it's not.

Alanis Morissette

I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

Madonna Ciccone

Awakening is the ultimate of religion. Religion is, not really, in believing something outside of your being. It is not in believing or following some authoritative figure, the church, temple, organization or any ideological system of belief. Religio...

Awakening Inner Guru

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations, from the state down to the village garden club, end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

Robert Shea

My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing.

William T. Vollmann

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.

Anne McCaffrey