Quotes About Influence

Todos somos como somos porque hemos sido algo antes

The wish of a beautiful woman is a law for the rest of the world.

Por mucho que uno se esfuerce en vivir una sola vida, los demás verán dentro de ella otras mil, y ésta es la causa por la cual no logramos evitar hacernos daño.

This amused him much more than making piles of money. Teaching. He was a man made like that.

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

What would be my power over you, when revealing my secrets towards you, especially when discovering yours?

Napoleon has still retained a train of parasitical satellites.

la mayoría de personas disfrutaba de seguir al líder. Les liberaba de la obligación de pensar por sí mismos.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their lives running away from their mothers, or from anybody who remotely reminded them of their mothers; either that, or they became their mothers, in a desperate, misguided act of psychological self defence.

You simply could not help everybody; but you could at least help those who came into your life.

It was easy to make a difference to other people's lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life.

We need a person whom we can make our little god on this earth, as the old Kgatla saying had it. Whether it was a spouse, or a child, or a parent, or anybody else for that matter, there must be somebody who gives our lives purpose.

If we let the men talk about them and decide them, then suddenly we wake up and find out that the men have made all the decisions, and these decisions all suit men.

Words can make big things little, you know.

French philosophers had been able to admire Mao and his works because they did not have to live in China at the time.

Down below, amongst children, ice cream and chocolate are the bargaining chips supreme, as powerful as money and military force are amongst adults.

Most theories and ideologies claimed to explain the world, or some aspect of it, but did not in any real sense influence the world. Underneath everything, beneath the layers of explanation that we created, beneath all our elaborate protocols, people still did exactly as they wanted to do. In other words, you did not change human nature by inventing a theory of human nature.

the past has a much bigger shadow than people believe. It's still with us in so many ways. At our side all the time, whispering into our ear.

In such a way is freedom of thought lost," said Angus Lordie, who had been listening very attentively to Domenica. "By small cuts. By small acts of disapproval. By a thousand discouragements of spirit.

She could turn away and say that they had nothing to do with her, or she could accept that they had somehow touched her skirt. ...we all had a skirt, and those who touched our skirt became our concern.

wise men are remembered, they always are.

YOU DO NOT CHANGE PEOPLE BY SHOUTING AT THEM