Quotes About Influence

Robert Kennedy, on his own, left no great legislative legacy, founded no great institution, led no great movement. His most extraordinary accomplishment - and it was extraordinary - was to embody in himself, and create in others, a kind of transcendent yearning for the possibility of redemptive change.

But in practical politics, it does not matter what is true, but everything depends upon what the people believe to be true.

For youth can no more live without some kind of hero than it can without its daily supply of fresh air and vitamins.

F)or no word that has been uttered for the purpose of making man the master of his own fate has been spoken in vain.

History isn't just something that's being us, it's also something that follows us.

Big changes don't happen at the battlefield; they are made in closed rooms where very powerful people decide in which direction things should go.

Someone must lead the way.

The worker is a member of his community but the forces driving and changing society are wielded by others

It is not so much the sight of immorality of the great that is to be feared as that of immorality leading to greatness. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Democracy in America

There was always somebody at the top who dictated the terms, specifically or by implication, that those below had to accept. - Kurt Wallander

History isn't just something that's behind us, it's also something that follows us.

My grandfather had dominated my childhood out on the island, but my grandmother had been there too, providing the security I didn't recognise or value until I was an adult.

Where do our habits come from? he thought. What secret factory produces our habits, both good and bad? Ellen Magnusson

Jamais la femme ne se fût imaginée l'égale de l'hmôme, si l'homme, si l'homme ne lui avait dit qu'elle l'était, par « gentillesse ».

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love.

It is easier to live in the world without being of the world than to live in the church without being of the church

When our deepest truth is that we are the Beloved and when our greatest joy and peace come from fully claiming that truth, it follows that this has to become visible and tangible in the ways we eat and drink, talk and love, play and work. When the deepest currents of our life no longer have any influence on the waves at the surface, then our vitality will eventually ebb, and we will end up listless and bored even when we are busy.

People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.

Our most important and powerful assignments are in the family. They are important because the family has the opportunity at the start of a child's life to put feet firmly on the path home. Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.