Quotes About Influence

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all, be a sheep.

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

A man's actions are determined by necessity, external and internal.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.

In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties.

It is clear that all the valuable things, material, spiritual, and moral, which we receive from society can be traced back through countless generations to certain creative individuals. The use of fire, the cultivation of edible plants, the steam engine—each was discovered by one man.

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.

The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses.

And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press.

The masses are never militaristic until their minds are poisoned by propaganda.

Cercare di diventare non un uomo di successo, ma un uomo di valore

As a child I received instruction in both the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.

Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.

I am predominantly critical concerning the activities, and especially the political activities, through history of the official clergy.

Das gute Beispiel ist nicht eine Möglichkeit, andere Menschen zu beeinflussen, es ist die Einzige.

The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. You can will what you want, but you can't will what you will

Para ser un miembro irreprochable de un rebaño de ovejas hace falta primero ser oveja.

our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life

Jamais considere seus estudos como uma obrigação, mas como uma oportunidade invejável para aprender a conhecer a influência libertadora da beleza do reino do espírito, para seu próprio prazer pessoal e para proveito da comunidade à qual seu futuro trabalho pertencer.

the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?