Quotes About Influence

the kingmaker. He regained both prestige and fresh mating opportunities.

The influence of the recent past is always overestimated. When we are asked to name the greatest human inventions we tend to think of the telephone, the electric light bulb and the silicon chip rather than the wheel, the plough and the taming of fire.

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

It is true that if care is taken to use only a language that it's understood by graduates in law and economics, you can easily prove that the masses have to be managed from above.

there is an extraordinary power in the possession of a language.

What matters is not so much the color of your skin as the power you serve and the millions you betray.

For me words have a charge. I find myself incapable of escaping the bite of a word, the vertigo of a question-mark.

The colonist makes history and he knows it.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

Kültür, büyük ölçüde, insanlar?n iç yaÅŸant?s?yla alâkas? olmayan d?? etkenli hadiseler ile belirlenir.

This village belongs to the Castle, and whoever lives here or passes the night here does so in a manner of speaking in the Castle itself. Nobody may do that without the Count's permission.

Then your words of abuse today may turn into a universally valid principle of denigration, for words are magical formulae. They leave fingermarks behind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye becomes the footprints of history. One ought to watch one's every word.

Kings exercise control over people, and scholars exercise control over kings.

According to the Prophet, the four blemishes of knowledge are boasting of one's knowledge and feeling superior on account of it to recognized scholars, entering into contests with fools on the strength of one's knowledge, trying through it to influence people in his favor, and attempting to obtain favors from leaders in powerful positions by means of it.

The deeds of our hearts too...are not without their progeny. [Jeremiah, to Ebed-melech]

Il giorno della mia nascita, i tre personaggi destinati a devastare l'umanità erano già venuti al mondo: Hitler aveva diciotto anni, Stalin ventotto e Mao tredici. Ero cascata nel secolo sbagliato. Il loro.

Papá adoraba a los animales (...) eso es algo que me ha legado, lo mismo que el amor a Italia, a la literatura o a la historia de las civilizaciones. Cierto es que su animalofilia no le privaba de ponerse hasta arriba de asados, filetes o salchichas.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

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