Quotes for All
Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality, and freedom were really practiced instead of only preached, there would be no need for a special institution(the church) to take care of those principles. Erich Fromm
I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare. Erica Jong
I don’t believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying. Erica Jong
By the accusation of liberal bias … the institutions that conservatives revere – the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful conservative groups themselves – will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence. Eric Alterman
I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one’s country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn’t be confined to organized religion. Emily Raboteau
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. Emile Zola
Organized religion, being founded on superstition, is, perforce, not scientific. And all that which is not scientific – that is, truthful – must be bolstered up by force, fear and falsehood. Thus we always find slavery and organized religion going hand in hand. Elbert Hubbard
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. Edmond de Goncourt
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. Edgar Allan Poe
Some of the first human beings in whom the new consciousness emerged fully became the great teachers of humanity, such as Buddha, Lao Tzu, or Jesus, although their teachings were greatly misunderstood, especially when they turned into organized religion. They were the first manifestations of the flowering of human consciousness. Eckhart Tolle