Quotes About Influence

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

The real test of any church or religion is the kind of men it makes.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.

Christianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still some power behind the religion, as sort of watered down as it can be.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.

Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

Freedom has its roots in religion.

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.

The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.

Some friends give bad advice because they live a bad life.

Religion poisons everything

When the blind lead the blind the world is full of casualties.