Quotes About Influence

Politics, noun: [Poly 'many' + tics 'blood-sucking parasites']" ?—Larry Hardiman "We hang the petty thieves. The master thieves we appoint to public office." ?—Aesop "Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so." ?—Gore Vidal

It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

You really don't get it, do you? Most people are sheep. Stupid and uninformed. And they don't dig. They don't think for themselves. They'll trust a sincere voiceover and whatever the television tells them.

perfected mass-brainwashing techniques early on after extensive experimentation on their populations.

Presidents could be fickle and arbitrary. Each new one with wildly different visions and priorities. And when all was said and done, they were nothing more than civilians who managed to get donors excited enough to give them money, and then win a popularity contest. They weren't the smartest or best trained that humanity had to offer, and they didn't have the best judgment. The truly brilliant, truly gifted, wanted little to do with politics. Cargill

So your drug could at least loosen the grip of a cult leader on his followers?

But the bottom line is this, once a timeline affects its own past, even though it erases itself in the process, the effect it had still remains.

It's been said that history is told by the victors.

Politics, noun: [Poly 'many' + tics 'blood-sucking parasites']

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Vyrai dešimt kart? patrauklesni, kai tiktai klausosi.

If there is an abiding theme in The Pursuit of Happiness it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories. How you then grapple with everything life throws in your path—and how your own sense of ethics dictates so much about your dealings with life's larger questions—determines so much. "Character

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

The requirement that authority must equal responsibility is not only impossible to fulfill; it is logically unnecessary except within a system which makes authority the exclusive means of influence. The

Perhaps the most critical point—and the one hardest to keep clearly in mind—is that help is always defined by the recipient. Taking an action with respect to someone because "it is best for him," or because "it is for the good of the organization," may be influencing him, but it is not providing help unless he so perceives it. Headquarters

Las redes se han convertido en el medio ideal para instaurar nuevos dogmas y aplastar al oponente justo cuando más convendría escucharlo.

sabemos que algunas personas no se detienen ante nada con tal de ver cumplido aquello que consideran cierto. La pregunta es si aquello que una persona o un grupo de personas consideran cierto acerca de sí mismas debe ser aceptado o no como tal por el resto de la sociedad.

The manner in which marketing addresses women tells us a great deal about what women are actually motivated by when they think men aren't watching. Consider the endless numbers of advertising campaigns and pieces in women's magazines dedicated to motifs like 'Make him drool'.

parents do not rejoice in a nine-year-old drag queen being given a modelling contract with an LGBT fashion company and telling other children in a viral YouTube video, 'If you wanna be a drag queen and your parents don't let you, you need new parents.'45

Society is a funny thing. The rules are arbitrary and designed to maintain control of the masses.

One reason Christianity has failed to exert much influence on the major intellectual institutions of America is that too many Christians hold their beliefs in an uninformed and precarious fashion. Instead of pursuing answers to the toughest questions an unbelieving world can marshal, they attempt to preserve certainty through ignorance and isolation, relying on platitudes rather than arguments.