Quotes About Influence

The past lies like a nightmare upon the present

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.

It is not the consciousness of man that determines his existence—rather, it is his social existence that determines his consciousness.

Most of us, it seems, have a strong inclination to accept the peculiarities of our social environment as if they were 'natural'.

Demokrasi ve despotizm aras?ndaki fark: demokrasilerde kan dökmeden hükümetler devrilir; oysa despotizmde bu böyle de?ildir. 3. Demokrasi, vatanda?lara iyilikler sunamaz (ve sunmamal? da). Gerçekten de "demokrasi" tek ba??na bir ?ey yapamaz; bir ?eyler yapacak olan ancak demokratik bir devletin vatanda?lar?d?r (ve ku?kusuz hükümetleridir).

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

Although he was barely four years older than Gödel, Menger had become a sort of mentor to Gödel, and an almost fatherly friend. When he returned to Vienna, he and Gödel slowly drifted away from the Vienna Circle. To their taste, it had taken on too much of the flavor of Wittgenstein and of Neurath; there was too much of a cult about the former, and too much politics in the latter.

If you do bother, you will set an example for other people. If enough other people bother, each one influencing yet another in a chain reaction of behavioral change, markets for all manner of green products and alternative technologies will prosper and expand.

Strange that one man's actions could touch so many other people, like a single, thoughtless breath of wind coming in an open window and blowing the playing cards every which way.

When the National Institutes of Health makes an announcement through one of its many spokespeople, who

We accept the proclamations of scientists in their lab coats with the same faith once reserved for priests.

My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.

Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.

Artists shouldn't be made famous. You know... they're just ... as important as... um doctors, and priests ... or maybe not as important sometimes, and yet they have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a lot of money. And at the same time it is a forced importance you know, football stars and theatre stars It is man-made so the press can feed off it.

I think quotes are very dangerous things.

One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.

There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

Power does not willingly give up its place to truth.

Though they are fine to see, horses frighten me because they are large and weak minded, which is a dangerous combination in horses, men, and gods.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

Governments who manipulate population growth have two choices: making maternity pleasant, or making it inescapable.

The term "politics" shall refer to power-structured relationships, arrangements whereby one group of persons is controlled by another. By