Quotes About Influence

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Religion poisons everything good in this world.

The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

Those who believe religion and politics aren't connected don't understand either.

Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.

We could plan a murder Or start a religion.

The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it.

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.