Quotes About Influence

It doesnt matter how many people vote, only who counts them.

You know, I guess one person can make a difference. 'Nuff said...

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

Das Gewissen des Volkes steckt nicht unbedingt im Kopf des Staates.

PotÄ™ga frazesu byÅ'a i jest w Polsce arcypotÄ™gÄ…. DziaÅ'a ona na mózg polski zupeÅ'nie tak, jak du?a butla spirytusu.

Very few people, including most scientists, realize that we have absolutely no proof that consciousness is actually produced by the brain and not even a remote notion of how something like that could possibly happen. In spite of it, this basic metaphysical assumption remains one of the leading myths of Western materialistic science and has a profound influence on our entire society.

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you.

Either I get Frank's job as president, or I'm going to leave the company. JEFFREY KATZENBERG TO DISNEY CHAIRMAN MICHAEL EISNER LESS THEN THIRTY-SIX HOURS AFTER THE DEATH OF DISNEY NUMBER TWO, FRANK WELLS

Throughout our time here on earth, we all have a choice. To do things the mediocre way . . . or Machiavelli's way.

In Ellington, we hear the story of the Negro, maybe the most American of Americans.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead. The shaping power of language cannot be avoided. We cannot choose to distance ourselves from it. We can n choose to employ it in one way rather than another. (42)

See what you've done? It's catching. That great kid, going an extra mile because you're a great kid.

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controlling his behavior.

There is a propensity for people to accept definitions of action provided by legitimate authority

is not what subjects do but for whom they are doing it that counts.

There is a certain discomfort in not knowing who the boss is, and subjects sometimes frantically sought to determine this.