Quotes About Influence

May heaven have mercy on the European intellect if one wanted to subtract the Jewish intellect from it.

Truth Requires Power — Truth in itself is no power at all, in spite of all that flattering rationalists are in the habit of saying to the contrary. Truth must either attract power to its side, or else side with power, for otherwise it will perish again and again. This has already been sufficiently demonstrated, and more than sufficiently!

To me, the masses seem to be worth a glance only in three respects: first as blurred copies of great men, presented on bad paper with worn out printing plates, then as the resistance against the great men, and finally as working implements of the great. For the rest, let the devil and statistics carry them off!

They rule, not because they want to, but because they are; they are not at liberty to play second.

seseorang yag merasa dirinya ditakdirkan untuk megamati dan bukan meyakini akan menemukan bahwa semua penganut terlalu cerewet dan suka mendesak: dia akan menolak mereka

A people is nature's roundabout way of getting six or seven great men. – Yes: and then of getting around them.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

The hatred of egoism, whether it be one's own, as with the Christians, or another's, as with the Socialists, comes about first, as a value judgement under the predominant influence of revenge, and second, as a prudent means of self-preservation on the part of the suffering, by intensifying their feelings of reciprocity and solidarity.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

At times, one can win clever people over to a principle merely by presenting it in the form of an outrageous paradox.

If I wished to shake this tree with my hands, I should not be able to do so. But the wind, which we do not see, troubles and bends it as it lists. We are worst bent and troubled by invisible hands.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

But was Percy's approach the only one? Did you have to lie to them, push them, treat them as seven billion morons?

when Big Science and politics tangle, science always loses

Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has done more to lower the moral tone of society than the denial of personal guilt. This repudiation of man's personal responsibility for his action is falsely justified in two ways: by assuming that man is only an animal and by giving a sense of guilt the tag "morbid.

The greatest influence in writing was G. K. Chesterton who never used a useless word, who saw the value of a paradox, and avoided what was trite.

The Church was spread throughout the entire Roman Empire before a single book of the New Testament was written.

By teaching the young, she remained young. Virtue does more to preserve youthfulness than all the pomades in Elizabeth Arden's.

Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well.

Three dominant evils prevailed—clerical concubinage, simony

A character is made by the kind of thoughts a man thinks when alone, and a civilization is made by the kind of thoughts a man speaks to his neighbor. On

Our effectiveness at the bottom of the ladder depends on our communication with the top. Popularity is not necessarily influence. 'Woe upon you,' said Our Lord, 'when all men speak well of you.' Greatest is our compassion for others and our ability to elevate them when we have come down from heaven. The bottom of the ladder is best discovered from the top.