Quotes of: Organized-religion Keyword

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstance...

George C. Williams

The cells of an organism are nodes in a richly interwoven communications network, transmitting and receiving, coding and decoding. Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism and environment.

James Gleick

The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the human brain is neither a literature organ or a math organ. It is both and more.

John Green

In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up. We actually don't have free will. We're acting according to our programming as organic mechanisms.

Joel Kinnaman

We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to support the United Nations organization with all the power and resources we possess.

James F. Byrnes

We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles.

David Weinberger

Why do we even need WikiLeaks? They're not the only organization that publishes leaks. And they don't have some special technology that allows them to post on the Internet with mirrored sites. The idea of WikiLeaks lives on, but as an organization, i...

Alex Gibney

After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.

Rose Schneiderman

I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.

Mandy Patinkin

I say this because all religions, accurately understood, will take away your fear of not being enough. I believe there is a way to understand the tenets of your religion, right now, that will take away your fear and make you feel loved and safe. The ...

Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness

Ironic, isn't it, what religion does to people?" "I guess it's more ironic what people do to religion.

Dream a Little Dream

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

The Age of Reason

The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.

Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

They haven't eliminated religion from the public school. They have eliminated Christianity and have replaced it with an anti-God religion—humanism.

The Lie: Evolution

AUM or Om is not related to any religion because Om was practiced before the birth of all the religions of the world.

Om Chanting & Meditation

The man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world.

The Pilgrim's Progress

Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too.

Lisa Randall