Quotes About Influence

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.

We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.

The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

The Bible, taken as a whole, can be used to praise or condemn practically any human activity, thought, belief, or practice.

Religion controls inner space; inner space controls outer space.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.

Only my death will determine whether I am 'Mohamed Gandhi', Jinnah's slave, destroyer of the Hindu religion or its servant and protector.

We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.

I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no power.

What I don't like about the way the media portrays religion is that they seem to weaponize it and use it as a tool to divide people.

If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.

Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.

The Shadow-maker shapes forever.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.