Quotes of: Organized-religion Keyword

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a one.

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.

The Sound and the Fury

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

Small Gods

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

Shoeless Joe

All of the world's religions have important things to teach us, and they are not as different from each other as some would have you believe.

Molly Withers and the Golden Tree

I accepted what the Sisters taught in religion class: that God is loving, merciful, charitable, forgiving. That message didn't jibe with adults smacking kids.

My Beloved World

But art and religion will always shadow one another through the abstract nouns they both invoke: truth, seriousness, imagination, sympathy, morality, transcendence.

Nothing to Be Frightened Of

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

The October Country

It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the empire under the auspices of Marcus Aurelius instead of those of Constantine.

On Liberty

I do not want to be labeled as an atheist; I do hate religions’ stupidity and insanity, but there is nothing else I can be called.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

Lavinia

Religion can't separate us, politics can't divide us, wealth can't classify us. We're all one! We're children of LOVE!

Stardust Family - We Are One!

I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.

Sincerely, Andy Rooney

The human Soul will only find its Light, when the Ego gives its permission.

The Stolen Light of Women: A Quest for Spiritual Truth Beyond Religion

First-class religion teaches one how to love God without any motive. If I serve God for some profit, that is business-not love.

The Science of Self-Realization

I've always been taught that religion is supposed to be a comfort to people, not a threat. I think these people have perverted something that's supposed to be holy and turned it into a weapon.

A Serpent's Tooth

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind.

Styles of Radical Will

It was his experience that one did poorly by involving oneself in matters of local religion. The world looked one way if you believed, and another if you did not, and that was all there was to it.

Tigerman

Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it.

Picasso