Quotes About Influence

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

Religion cruelly exploits our need to feel connected.

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.

religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

The only figure in history who endures is Jesus.

...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.

It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person].

Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in the host until something evokes it.

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

Here's an easy way to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a cult, the answer is yes.

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.

When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.

Given the religious nature and the emotional power of Leftist values, Jews and Christians on the Left often derive their values from the Left more than from their religion.

In America the press rules the countrty; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practices.

Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.

We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.

Their moral influence will then do infinitely more to advance the true interests of religion, than any measures which they may call on Congress to enact.

Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

Catholic school gave me the tools to reject the very religion they wanted me to have. They taught me how to think for myself and to be independent.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.