Quotes of: Organized-religion Keyword

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

John Eldredge

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch.

James McBride

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard.

Julius Streicher

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Karl Marx

From the long range point of view, I do not know of anything we can do more important than to make some contribution to the preservation of religion as a vital force in America.

Louis Finkelstein

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

Lawrence M. Krauss

I have always felt that a man's religion was his personal and private affair.

Leverett Saltonstall

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

Lawrence Wright

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

Norman Lamm

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

Paul Nurse

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Peter Ustinov

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.

Richard Dawkins

I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.

Richard Dawkins

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

Sam Harris

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

Toni Cade Bambara

I don't know - I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.

Tracy Chapman

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Thomas Hardy