Quotes About Influence

The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable.

the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.

Cuanto mayores son los talentos de un hombre más grande es su poder de corromper a los demás. Y es mejor que sufra uno solo a que se corrompan muchos. (...) El asesino sólo mata al individuo, y, al fin y al cabo, ¿qué es un individuo? Podemos fabricar otro nuevo con la mayor facilidad; tantos como queramos.

The really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power.

The negative propaganda of silence is probably more effective as an instrument of persuasion and mental regimentation than speech. Silence creates the condition in which such words as are spoken or written take most effect.

Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob. "Till

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.

Happiness is a hard master- particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth.

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase. In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.

Tel est le but de tout conditionnement. Faire aimer aux gens la destination sociale à laquelle ils ne peuvent échapper.

Las palabras pueden ser como los rayos X, si se emplean adecuadamente: pasan a través de todo.

People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God. (p.207)

Rije?i mogu djelovati poput rendgenskih zraka ako se ispravno koriste - prodrijeti kroz bilo što. Pro?itaš, a one prodru kroz tebe.

Infant-conditioning and narco-hypnosis are far more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted.

Words are the most powerful of weapons if you use them properly - they'll cut through anything. But what's the good of that if the things you write about have no power in them?

People, he was beginning to understand, are at once the beneficiaries and the victims of their culture. It brings them to flower; but it also nips them in the bud or plants a canker at the heart of the blossom.

was fourteen.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons, that's philosophy.

Providence takes its cue from men

Uno cree las cosas porque ha sido condicionado para creerlas.... La gente cree en Dios porque ha sido condicionada para creer en Dios.

Los mayores triunfos de la propaganda se han logrado, no haciendo algo, sino impidiendo que ese algo se haga

I see her as a kind of Midas, turning everything she touched into imagination.

Because a writer can't influence people, in the sense of making them think and feel and act as he does. He can only influence them to be more, or less, like one of their own selves. In other words, he's never understood.