Quotes About Influence

To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

Les livres que j'aimais devinrent une Bible où je puisais des conseils et des secours.

Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.

It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.

History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.

Même les manifestations et les initiatives féminines n'ont pris de valeur que lorsqu'une décision masculine les a efficacement prolongées.

If I were to share Jaques' existence I would find it hard to hold my own against him, for already I found his nihilism contagious.

Quand elles [les femmes] sont intervenues dans le cours du monde, c'est en accord avec les hommes, dans des perspectives masculines.

any reproach made by my mother, and even her slightest frown was a threat to my security: without her approval, I no longer felt I had any right to live.

but there was one book in which I believed I had caught a glimpse of my future self: Little Women, by Louisa M. Alcott.

Ce sont eux [les hommes] qui ont toujours tenu le sort de la femme entre leurs mains; et ils n'en ont pas décidé en fonction de son intérêt; c'est à leurs propres projets, à leurs craintes, à leurs besoins qu'il-ont eu régard.

Si, bien avant la puberté, et parfois même dès sa toute petite enfance, elle nous apparaît déjà comme sexuellement specifiée, ce n'est pas que de mystérieux instincts immédiatement la vouent à la passivité, à la coquetterie, à la maternité, c'est que lintervention d'autrui dans la vie de l'enfant et presque originelle et que dès ses premières années sa vocation lui est impérieusement insufflée.

El opresor no sería tan fuerte si no tuviese cómplices entre los propios oprimidos

Existia um livro que eu acreditava ter me feito vislumbrar quem seria no futuro: Mulherzinhas, de Louisa May Alcott

And she antagonized me by preferring the force of authority to friendliness.

The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.

Manette: - Cette Jeunesse ne croit à rien. [...] Vous ne croyez pas non plus à grand-chose. [...] André est contre tous. C'est ça la faute. C'est pour ça que Philippe (son fils) a mal tourné. Il faut être pour quelque chose.

Qué esperamos pues del otro? Estaría equivocada en esperar que el otro me llevara lejos a través de un devenir sin fin: ningún acto humano se propaga hasta el infinito. Lo que otro crea a partir de mí no es ya mío.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their time comes, will manufacture professors.

It's as if we have returned to the era of Protagoras and the sophists, the era when the art of persuasion --for which slogans, commercials, public propaganda meetings, newspapers, cinema, radio are the modern equivalent-- took the place of thought, determined the fate of cities and accomplished coups