Quotes About Influence

Shakespeare gathered the fruitage of all who went before him, he has sown the seeds for all who shall ever come after him. He was the great intellectual ocean whose waves touch the continents of all thought.

A man may be able, educated, refined, of unblemished character, nevertheless if he lack the power to express himself, put forth his views in good and appropriate speech he has to take a back seat, while some one with much less ability gets the opportunity to come to the front because he can clothe his ideas in ready words and talk effectively.

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One last unexploded mine remains, its exact location unknown and its hidden potency serving as something of a symbol of the Great War's underlying power to influence events down to the present day.

The powerful try to frame the discussion in a way that benefits their interests, realizing that, in a democracy, they cannot simply impose their rule on others. In one way or another, they have to "co-opt" the rest of society to advance their agenda. Here

It is not particular judges who are bought but the laws themselves, through campaign contributions and lobbying, in what has come to be called "corruption, American-style." In some states judges are elected, and in those states there's an even closer connection between money and "justice." Monied interests use campaign contributions to get judges who are sympathetic to their causes.

Sexto, visto que las reglas del juego y tantos otros aspectos de nuestra economía y sociedad dependen del Gobierno

especially in the United States, it seems that the political system is more akin to "one dollar one vote" than to "one person one vote.

More than 80 years ago, John Maynard Keynes explained why market economies often have persistent unemployment and taught us how government could maintain the economy at or near full employment.

the newly elected government was told in effect that they had no choice: accept the conditions or your banking system will be destroyed, your economy will be devastated, and you will have to leave the euro. What does it mean to be a democracy, where the citizens seemingly have no say over the issues about which they care the most, or the way their economy is run?

Just as Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib have eroded America's moral authority, so the Bush administration's fiscal housekeeping has eroded our economic authority.

experiments show that bankers—especially when they are reminded that they are bankers—act in a more dishonest and selfish way.50 They are shaped by their profession

en los noventa, la confianza en el poder de los mercados se había generalizado hasta tal punto que la liberalización financiera era impulsada por algunos de mis colegas dentro de la Administración, y al final también por el propio Clinton.

We know through advances in behavioral economics and marketing that one can manipulate perceptions and beliefs.

Y hay otras semejanzas entre Reagan y Trump: una de ellas es la voluntad abierta de servir a los intereses de las grandes corporaciones

In an otherwise perfectly mediocre presidency, the one savvy thing John F. Kennedy did, at least for his own reputation, was to bring these Cambridge intellectuals on board.

These kids could have starred in a social media campaign for vasectomies.

We do not know when any seed will come to fruition. We can experience the karmic results of our actions in this lifetime, in the next life, or at any time in the future. But our present actions influence which karmic seeds have the opportunity to come to fruition.

Catch-22 says they have the right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

The important thing is to keep them pledging, he explained to his cohorts. It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

You know, one good apple can spoil the rest," Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.

I suppose it is just about impossible for someone like me to rebel anymore and produce any kind of lasting effect. I have lost the power to upset things that I had as a child; I can no longer change my environment or even disturb it seriously.

And you can't let crazy people decide whether you're crazy or not, can you?