Quotes About Influence

No queda otra cosa que una gran masa analfabeta creada deliberadamente por el Poder, una especie de muchedumbre amorfa que nos ha hundido a todos en una mediocridad general.

Con solemnidad o no, el narrador de Carta breve para un largo adiós utilizaba siempre su yo, probablemente porque su formación era europea.

After all, what are we, what is any one of us, if not a combination, particular and exact, of what we have done, what we have read, and what we have imagined?

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.

El futuro no es ni del todo nuestro ni del todo ajeno.

A lie gets half way around the world before the truth can get it's pants on.

We need to set our affections on one good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing.

The esteem of others is outside our control; we must attend instead to healing ourselves.

Membership in the Nazi Party was even forbidden by the Church for some time.

There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny.

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.

The important thing is not who fired the shot but who paid for the bullet.

The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.

It was the power of Business, not the deliberations of statesman, that shaped the destinies of nations. The Foreign Ministers of the great powers might make the actual declarations of their Governments' policies; but it was the Big Business men, the bankers and their dependents, the arms manufacturers, the oil companies, the big industrialists, who determined what those policies should be.

The situation in which a person, imagining fondly that he is in charge of his own destiny, is, in fact, the sport of circumstances beyond his control, is always fascinating.

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

A great man is one who either helps to find out what the world is really like, or else tries to change the world to match his image. In both cases he is trying to bring images and reality closer together by changing one or the other.