Quotes About Influence

Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.

It has been accurately said that if America's economy sneezes, the world catches a cold.

He had prayed for wisdom and skill in controlling what he knew was the most controversial part of their study. It was one thing, Scott knew, to study prophecies about a future powerful, wealthy and influential end times nation. It was quite another thing to conclude that the prophesied evil nation, the mother of abominations, was one's own country, and then decide to flee from it. Scott trusted that he was ready.

America's power position as "the hammer of the whole earth" extends to more than military power. America tells other nations what to do and how to do it. For example, America forced the UBS AG Bank in Switzerland to close all of the offshore accounts in the Swiss Bank held by U.S. citizens, as part of an IRS "tax investigation which challenges Switzerland's famous banking secrecy laws." (Reuters, January 9, 2009).

Outside of North America, there are 82 stock exchanges, some quite small, such as the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange. Very few have anything close to the influence on the world's economies enjoyed by American exchanges. It has been accurately said that if America's economy sneezes, the world catches a cold.

As the world's only remaining superpower, the United States can impose its will on nations, or peoples within those nations. America's voice is 'great', in large part, because of its great wealth and because the nation is the 'the hammer of the whole earth' (Jeremiah 50:23). Another aspect of its status as 'the great voice,' is America's use of its voice as the cultural and entertainment leader of the world.

Since the total amount of imported goods flowing onto our shores is over a Trillion dollars, we can understand why the world will be shaken to its core when the world's largest buyer of its goods is no longer buying.

Jews and Hindus have their own calendar, but have never shown any inclination to impose their calendar on others. A Muslim Antichrist will demand that each nation, coming under Islam, must adopt the Hijra calendar. Thus, the Muslim Mahdi will have a reason to do what the Bible says the Antichrist will do—change the times.

queen of kingdoms." Is there any nation in our world, in our time, that this title fits more appropriately than the world's only remaining superpower, the United States of America? America is the "queen of kingdoms.

But what we have done as a nation, that is much worse in the grand scheme of things, is that we have exported our idol worship to large portions of the globe. Today one can watch the latest American situation comedy (laced with repetitive, pervasive sexual content) in nations in most areas of the globe, appropriately translated into the local language. One can watch the latest movie from Hollywood on a silver screen in movie theaters in any developed nation.

located in strategic states across the country. He knew that doesn't even happen in a dictatorship.

In the balance of verse 51:7, though, Jeremiah gives us a further insight into the influence of the Daughter of Babylon on the people of the world: "Intoxicating all the earth, the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are going mad.

The nation has been in the forefront of promoting adultery, which generally leads to divorce, through its movies and television shows. America

who's to blame for our declining culture? Has the church in America become "Christianity Light," or like the Coke product, "Christianity Zero?

A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.

Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.

Be a great speaker, become a leader.

every fork in the road Nasser went left, Al-Sadat went right, and Mubarak says, "Don't move.

Nasser taught the Egyptians to be cowards, opportunists, and hypocrites.

Saudi Arabia, we should remember (as we turn to Indonesia and southern Thailand), in addition to flooding postrevolutionary Egypt with cash and hijacking the political process in Bahrain, Yemen, and Syria, is also pushing for Jordan and Morocco to join the Gulf Cooperation Council, giving rise to the nightmare scenario of a sort of Greater Wahhabi Kingdom from the borders of Israel to the Atlantic. Just

People don't resist change. They resist being changed! ~ Peter Senge