Allowing Quote by Walter Scott

It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since the…

— Eavan Boland

“Part the curtains of society’s racial, ethnic, religious, national, and cultural conflicts, and you find the human ego turning the knobs and pulling the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

But the People Will not let us alone; will not credit, condone Art-loves that shun Them (moderate Christians rotting in the sun.)

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way…

— Peter L. Berger

We're as much influenced by everybody else as they are by us, if they are. It's just all a part of the big thing.

— George Harrison

Everyone is influenced by everybody but you bring it down home the way you feel it.

— Thelonious Monk

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

— Tom G. Palmer

“I brought them up here to illustrate the point of conformity: the difficulty in maintaining your own beliefs in the face of others. Now,…

— Tom Schulman

“It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.” —ERIC HOFFER, THE PASSIONATE STATE OF MIND”

— David DiSalvo

I think when you're blessed with great influences, you need to spread it.

— Edward Moore

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.

— E. O. Wilson

Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.

— Henry David Thoreau