Quotes About Influence

Curious how things can work on you even when you recognize them.

Avarice is not unknown in Italy, and Rinaldo Pazzi had imbibed plenty with his native air. But his natural acquisitiveness and ambition had been whetted in America, where every influence is felt more quickly, including the death of Jehovah and the incumbency of Mammon. When

Tú puedes hacer atravesar el infierno a un grupo de hombres y conseguir que te sigan queriendo.

No existe misericordia en la Máquina verde; nosotros la creamos, fabricándola en las partes que han superado nuestro elemental cerebro de reptil. No existe el crimen, nosotros lo hemos creado y solo a nosotros nos incumbe.

Graham felt that it was she who drew the monster, as surely as a singing cricket attracts death from the redeyed fly.

If then the question is put to me whether I would rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means of influence and yet employs these faculties and that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion, I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.

The Papacy is not other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

But when I think of how many there are to whose designs it will be advantageous that these principles should be false, when I see that those who maintain contrary doctrines are not corrected, even though they have been punished by a civil war, when I see that the best minds are nourished by the seditious doctrines of the ancient Greeks and Romans, I fear that this writing of mine will be numbered with Plato's Republic, More's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis, and similar amusements of the mind.

M]en have no pleasure, (but on the contrary a great deal of grief) in keeping company, where there is no power to over-awe them all.

But the lavish lifestyle sells TV time and newspapers. All too often young people are indoctrinated with the belief that "those who have money spend lavishly" and "if you don't show it, you don't have it.

More than 80 percent have been married couple with children in which the wife did not work full time. What message did this send to the daughters of such couples? pg 182

until recently…. [She] really enabled him….

More often than not, UAWs allow "significant others" to determine their financial lifestyle. Interestingly, these "significant others," or reference groups, turn out to be more imagined than real.

There is a fundamental reason beyond Mr. Friend's perceived social and educational deficiencies that explains why he became a UAW: His parents taught him the ways of the UAW.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

The dead should not rule the living.

The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.

Any Government strong enough to give you what you want, is a Government strong enough to take everything you have!

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

A government which can be felt; a government of energy. God send that our country may never have a government, which it can feel.

The board might win such showdowns in its role as the public's champion. But Adams sensed that victories of this sort would be pyrrhic. They would so poison the atmosphere that further influence, beyond the narrow boundaries of the commission's legal authority

I have always been an admirer, I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

Seltsam ist es. Beherrscht dich ein Gedanke, so findest du ihn überall ausgedrückt, du r i e c h s t ihn sogar im Winde.

You will lead, you will strike up the march of the future, boys will swear by your name, and thanks to your madness they will no longer need to be mad.