Against Organized Religion Quotes

#1. When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.

Camille Paglia

#2. Tell X that speech is not dirty silence
Clarified. It is silence made still dirtier.

Wallace Stevens

#3. What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely ... Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. One of the main functions of organized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

C. G. Jung

#5. Great business leaders of our time stand above the crowd not because of what they do, but what they don't do.

Shawn Casemore

#6. Once you're sensitized to the negative effects of unhealthy choices, it gets easier to turn down what used to seem impossible to resist.

Mark Sisson

#7. All law must be subjective; the soil knows how to take a seed and make a plant from it; it does not know whether it is making a tomato or a potato ... It knows how to create without knowing what It creates.

Ernest Holmes

#8. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

George Orwell

#9. And now, having endeavoured to suit everyone by many weddings, few deaths, and as much prosperity as the eternal fitness of things will permit, let the music stop, the lights die out, and the curtain fall for ever on the March family.

Louisa May Alcott

#10. Every person is destroyed when we cease to see him; after which his next appearance is a new creation, different from that which immediately preceded it, if not from them all.

Marcel Proust

#11. An Ice Age is coming and I welcome it as much-needed changing. I see no solution to our ruination of earth except for a drastic reduction of the human population.

David Foreman

#12. Food trucks give creative entrepreneurs the ability to cook with freedom and make what they love, meaning that they can create highly specialized meals without having the high overhead costs of running a restaurant.

Homaro Cantu

#13. Be faithful to God in your small ministry and He will exalt you

Sunday Adelaja

#14. You wake up oneday and it's different, not so much in a physical way but in the way you look at things. I think when you reach that primary moment in your life, you finally have the courage to let go of the human attachments and start to live in a way that compliments your heart and soul.

Nikki Rowe

#15. There are no rules in the service of God, and this itself is no rule.

Yehudi Menuhin

#16. Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.

Georg Solti

#17. In a way the better the master;the worse the condition of slave,because it makes him forget what he is.

Amitav Ghosh

#18. We sometimes look among our numbers to find one to whom we can point who agrees with us, so we can have company to justify our apostasy. We rationalize by saying that someday the Church doctrine will catch up with our way of thinking. Truth is not established by Gallup polls.

Ezra Taft Benson

#19. Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of organized religion, you will discover that it endorsed slavery and quoted the Bible to approve it; the Pope even owned slaves.

John Shelby Spong

#20. Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

Napoleon Bonaparte