Quotes About Influence

When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.

The answer to the runaway Presidency is not the messenger-boy Presidency. The American democracy must discover a middle ground between making the President a czar and making him a puppet.

I do not know, but they are very rough. I suppose they would do almost anything for money. They smell strongly of liquor." Slowly

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.

What will happen to the world when you leave it? Nothing, in any case, will remain of what is now visible.

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

The influence of the sensory equipment with which we observe, and the intellectual equipment with which we formulate the results of observation as knowledge, is so far reaching that by itself it decides the number of particles into which matter in the universe appears to be divided.

Before the thought of Cleopatra every man is an Antony.

Para bien o para mal, a despecho del turco, el francés, el holandés, el inglés y la puta que los parió, España tuvo, durante un siglo y medio, bien agarrados a Europa y al mundo por las pelotas

Una mujer nunca es sólo una mujer, querido Max. Es también, y sobre todo, los hombres que tuvo, que tiene y que podría tener. Ninguna se explica sin ellos.

A reader is the total of all he's read, in addition to all the films and television he's seen.

Sólo hay algo a lo que los hombres con cargos públicos, del rey al ministro, dice, temen más que la educación de sus súbditos: la pluma de los buenos escritores.

la clase dirigente catalana, en buena parte forrada de pasta con el tráfico de esclavos negros y los negocios de una Cuba todavía española, tenía asegurado su tres por ciento, o su noventa por ciento, o lo que trincara entonces, para un rato largo.

Cuando un papa, Pío XII en este caso, llama a un país nación elegida por Dios, baluarte inexpugnable de la fe católica, está claro que quien gobierna ese país va a estar un rato largo gobernándolo.

Sólo hay algo a lo que los hombres con cargos públicos, del rey al ministro, dice, temen más que la educación de sus súbditos: la pluma de los buenos escritores. La conciencia de los poderosos se retuerce cada vez que uno de estos héroes del pueblo, como el propio Bringas sin ir más lejos, denuncia lo que esos infames no se avergüenzan de perpetrar.

Oderint dum metuant. Que me odien, pero que me teman.

Siempre es usted así? - ¿Cómo es así? - sonrió Falcó. - Tan engreído. Tan seguro de sí mismo. Tan de todo. - Va por días. - ¿Y hoy es uno de esos días? La miró con cara de buen chico. Directo a los ojos. - Depende de usted.

En materia de seguridad, confiaba más en convencer que en dar órdenes.