Quotes About Influence

La multitud es un dócil rebaño incapaz de vivir sin amo.

May we not be justified in reaching the diagnosis that, under the influence of cultural urges, some civilizations, or some epochs of civilization—possibly the whole of mankind—have become 'neurotic'?

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds.

Words were originally magic, and the word retains much of its old magical power even to-day.

Least of all should the artist be held responsible for the fate which befalls his works.

we cannot fail to recognise the influence which the progressive control over natural forces exerts on the social relationships between men, since men always place their newly won powers at the service of their aggressiveness, and use them against one another.

Les mots provoquent des émotions et constituent pour les hommes le moyen général de s'influencer réciproquement.

Words were originally magic, and the word retains much of its old magical power even to-day. With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair; by words the teacher transfers his knowledge to the pupil; by words the speaker sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth effects and are the universal means of influencing human beings. Therefore

la sugestión abre de golpe las puertas que para la autosugestión se abrirían lentamente por sí mismas.

la importancia intelectual de un profesor académico nos trae consigo necesariamente aquel influjo sobre las jóvenes generaciones que se exterioriza en la creación de una escuela importante y numerosa.

There is a way to represent one's cause and in doing so to treat the audience in such a cool and condescending manner that they are bound to notice one is not doing it to please them. The principle should always be not to make concessions to those who don't have anything to give but who have everything to gain from us. We can wait until they are begging on their knees even if it takes a very long time.

The masses] have never thirsted after truth. They demand illusions, and cannot do without them. They constantly give what is unreal precedence over what is real; they are almost as strongly influenced by what is untrue as by what is true. They have an evident tendency not to distinguish between the two.

La sugestión, en efecto, no puede producir nada que no se halle ya entre los contenidos de la consciencia o que no haya sido introducido en ella.

I Am the Architect of My Own Destiny

But never had she felt so clearly as in this hour that it was on her father and mother all the life of this home had rested. What ever hidden troubles they might have had to struggle with, warmth and help, peace and safety had flowed out from them to all that lived about them.

gradual and diplomatic path to asserting Rome's supremacy.

Why does causation run always from past to future, or does it make sense to think that the future might influence the past?

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men's hands, since that wouldn't change anything about the world. It's a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

Lisa Simpson is the kind of child we not only want our children to be, but also the kind of child we want all children to be.

The best and most effective espionage service in the world belongs to the Vatican.

And that was about all that he really wished the world to know about himself. "I am a nobody," he would write toward the end of the century, when fame had begun to creep up on him. "Treat me as a solar myth, or an echo, or an irrational quantity, or ignore me altogether." But

Achaemenid Persian

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.