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Quotes About Influence

The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
~ William Hazlitt
When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.
~ Sam Ervin
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
~ John Adams
Religion is the opiate of the people.
~ Karl Marx
If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.
~ George Carlin
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
~ Joseph Addison
If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.
~ Bertrand Russell
On balance the moral influence of religion has been awful.
~ Steven Weinberg
To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.
~ Peter Forsyth
Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.
~ Jodi Picoult
Superstition is an enemy to civil liberty.
~ David Hume
Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.
~ Robert Schumann
In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.
~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.
~ Thomas Szasz
No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.
~ Jodi Picoult
When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.
~ Frank Herbert
It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
~ Simone Weil
The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.
~ Andrew Dickson White
Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
When one guy sees an invisible man he's a nut case; ten people see him it's a cult; ten million people see him it's a respected religion.
~ Richard Jeni