Quotes About Influence

What frequently begins as a conspiracy frequently develops into conditioned response, with only occasional explicit coordination required.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies. —DON DELILLO

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

If a man own land, the land owns him.

The cardinal virtue of a teacher (is) to protect the pupil from his own influence

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words

The greatest man in history was the poorest

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evil they fear.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.

Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table.

The world is his, who has money to go over it.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.