Quotes About Influence

A movement which is confined to philosophers and honest men can never exercise any real political influence.

The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.

A movement which is confined to philosophers and honest men can never exercise any real political influence: there are too few of them. Until a movement shows itself capable of spreading among brigands, it can never hope for a political majority.

your uncle Howard is one of the most harmless of men—much nicer than most professional people. Of course he does dreadful things as a judge; but then if you take a man and pay him 5,000 pounds a year to be wicked, and praise him for it, and have policemen and courts and laws and juries to drive him into it so that he can't help doing it, what can you expect?

When you go to women," says Nietzsche, "take your whip with you.

No doubt there are slavish women as well as slavish men; and women, like men, admire those that are stronger than themselves.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

Authority abuse is any situation in which an authority figure's influence eclipses that of God's or disrupts God's divine order of authority.

I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it.

If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked.

Religion is just mind control.

If we could only find out who's in charge, we could kill him.

You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Two reasons: First of all, I think he's a good actor, okay? To me, that counts. Second, he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck around. In fact, Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that God was having trouble with.

Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind.

If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

Everyone should try to scratch their name on the bomb of life.

So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today.

The things they don't tell you in schools these days, geez. Have a look at your owners. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice; you have owners. They own you. They own everything.

Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class - the people who run things. Those who decide what news you will or will not hear are paid by, and tolerated purely at the whim of, those who hold economic power. If the parent corporation doesn't want you to know something, it won't be on the news. Period. Or, at the very least, it will be slanted to suit them, and then rarely followed up.

Wealth is a power. With wealth many things are possible