Quotes About Influence

the decisive proof that the people are dupes is when the priest is rich and powerful.

The law has been perverted by the influence of two entirely different causes: stupid greed and false philanthropy. Let us speak of the first.

Tko govori o dekolonizaciji? Ništa tako ne kolonizira kao svjetska reklama: u dnu kolibe na kraju svijeta Nike, Coca-Cola, Gap i Calvin Klein zamijenili su Francusku, Englesku, Španjolsku i Belgiju.

A cuánta gente habrá salvado la vida Mozart?

no podía dejar de pensar en aquella frase de Adolf Hitler: «Si desea la simpatía de las masas, tiene que decirles las cosas más estúpidas y crudas.» Ese desprecio,

Vous croyez que vous avez votre libre arbitre, mais un jour ou l'autre, vous allez reconnaître mon produit dans le rayonnage d'un supermarché, et vous l'achèterez, comme ça, juste pour goûter, croyez-moi, je connais mon boulot.

You know how easily things grow out of nothing, when they pass through a mouth that smears them all over and makes something else out of them—

If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with "Let's Make a Deal."

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

No podía imaginarme que pudiese poseer una cualidad alegre: pertenecía a esa clase de individuos cuya presencia hace que todo salga mal.

Yo no era un monstruo. La primera muchacha que me hubiese amado habría hecho de mí lo que hubiera querido.

Un abogado de mi edad, ¿no hubiese podido conocer, acaso, ciertas insinuaciones? Prescindiendo del hombre de negocios, muchas mujeres jóvenes habrían deseado excitar al hombre... Pero yo había perdido la fe en las criaturas, o, más que nada, en mi poder de gustar a alguna de ellas.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

La télévision n'est pas le reflet de ceux qui la font, mais de ceux qui la regardent.

All theatre is political -- just as all other activities of human beings are political -- because theatre is not autonomous and must thus decide whose interests it serves.

If you want someone to tell you what to think..." "You will never be short of people willing to do so.

Push something in someone's face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.

Words were dangerous when loosed. They were more powerful than cannon and more unpredictable than storms. They could turn men's heads inside out and warp their destinies. They could pick up kingdoms and shake them until they rattled.

Pull on a thread, and you pull on the whole web. And then out come the spiders . . .

here in the drawing room, each lady quietly relaxed and became more real, expanding into the space left by the men. Without visibly changing, they unfolded, like flowers, or knives.

Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labour – he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

Mosca had never tasted power before. It was a little like the feeling the gin had given her, but without the bitterness and the numbness in her nose.

Children are little priests of their parents, watching their every gesture and expression for signs of their divine will.

She knew that if you wanted somebody to believe something, there was no point forcing it down their throat. Far better to give them a hint, a glimpse, a taste, then snatch it away from them. The faster you ran, the more they would give chase, and the more likely to believe the hard-won information when they caught it.