Quotes About Influence

Women always cried. It was their last, best weapon. It made boyfriends apologize and husbands fold them in their arms. It made Daddy spend the extra money on the prom dress.

In order to achieve the widest possible distribution of political power, financial contributions to political campaigns should be made by individuals and individuals alone.

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.

we have a tendency to look around at what others are doing and use them as a standard of comparison.

Back then, as now, narratives shaped outcomes in courtrooms.

The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . .

During his consultations at the Kremlin, [Soviet ambassador Anatoly] Dobrynin had faced shock and incomprehension about Nixon's removal. 'They thought, how can the most powerful person in the United States, the most important person in the world, be legally forced to step down for stealing some documents?' he recalled.

People are just more willing to follow someone they like and trust.

You can't believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.

I hope you will leave the world a better place than you found it."     —Jane Yolen

the Internet! You knew the Mad Scientists invented the World Wide Web, right? Yep, back in the 1970s, the "Net" was a project designed to help with military communication. And here's the beauty of DARPA's mad scientists: they share their inventions whenever they can. Whenever DARPA comes up with an invention that will help society, they give it away. So, we ALL get to use the Internet. Thanks, DARPA!

We would do well to remember that the great pragmatist William James dedicated his extraordinarily wide-ranging Varieties of Religious Experience to none other than John Stuart Mill.

Sometimes you hurt people for no reason. Just because you can.

MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.

When soul to soul can message send-- Dispatched from mind to mind-- All nations will be swayed by thought, And thought will rule mankind.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking...

I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them.

I realised that all the things which were the source and object of my anxiety held nothing of good or evil in themselves save in so far as the mind was influenced by them,

It's so important to identify beliefs. Because once you identify [a negative belief], once you bring it into the light, you will see it doesn't belong to you: - That it came from your parents; - It came from your family; - It came from your society; - It came from your friends. And you bought into it. But it isn't yours. Holding on to something that isn't yours is called theft. Don't be a belief thief! Let go of what isn't yours.

Circumstances do not determine your state of being. Your state of being determines your circumstances.

For nothing can be greater than seduction itself, not even the order that destroys it.

When we are young, our parents run our life, when we get older, our children do.

Shelved around us lie the mummied authors.