Quotes about Influence

To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness..

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.

Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing.

I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.

I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.

The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest.

Leaders of the Church have often been Narcissus, flattered and sickeningly excited by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy.