Quotes About Influence

Our own life has to be our message.

Preaching is truth through personality.

Screw the truth into men's minds.

Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

One voice speaking truth is a greater force than fleets and armies.

The media—stenographers to power.

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it.

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

One time, a Protestant minister said, "We made Jesus blonde haired and blue eyed and very cute. We made Jesus somehow a much more feminine figure." And there's probably truth to that.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.