Quotes About Influence

Mind is the great lever of all things.

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity. ~

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people

I am still, relentlessly, reading Agee, and Flannery, too. Two of the writers who fired me to write post–Marine Corps, when I needed it, were Mr. McGuane and Mr. Harrison, and their books are always nearby, well thumbed. And Kawabata and James Salter, both of whom floor me.

James Agee and Flannery O'Connor have impacted on me hardest

With authority comes responsibility.

it's possible to go through our time on this ball floating in space without realizing that Fear has been pulling our strings all along. Our inner tyrant has made for us most of our choices—even those we were not aware of making. The fucked-up part about it is that Fear makes it easy for us to go along with this. It doesn't hurt us in an obvious way. It numbs us before injecting us with its poison—a slow form of euthanasia that takes a few decades to come to its conclusion. In

Hearst knew that in war propaganda, it is not crucial whether something is true or not. What matters is that it is constantly repeated and communicated to the population through many media outlets.

Corporations declare more than $2.6 billion in lobbying expenditures each year. "For every dollar that unions and public interest groups spend, large corporations and their associations now spend $34.

Intense propaganda and constant repetition kept the population on course for war.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the US since the days of Andrew Jackson," President Roosevelt wrote in a confidential letter to US diplomat Edward Mandell House in 1933. Of course, this statement was not made public.

course, she told her husband that it wouldn't be the same without me, he talked to Spencer, and I was on the list." That was always the trick with Spencer. If she said no to one of his colleagues,

how he gathered every morsel for later use as ammunition. His skill in this was impressive; he might not even be paying attention, and still, somehow, he absorbed details she shared. The most mundane, irrelevant facts were corrupted in his grip.

My grandma was the scariest person I'd ever met, and I could not imagine any man having the ability to terrify me more than her.

Because of their impact on our memories, writers rule. They wield the instrument by which our world is organized.

U svakom mom retku, u svakoj mojoj re?i, u svakoj ta?ki nalaziš se i ti, kao polen.

A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.

about 30 percent of our health and vitality is out of our control because of our genetics and gender.

You are the difference that God makes," the Being of Light communicated to me. "And that difference is love.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

If a better politics were in the direct and obvious interest of the old, wealthy and powerful, it would already exist.