Quotes About Influence

In the Occident the city has been the greatest opportunity and the worst influence; a place of creation and decay, of freedom and subjection, of riches and poverty, of splendor and misery, of communion and lonesomeness—an optimal milieu for talent, character, vice and corruption. Eric Hoffer

This has often been carried to the point of encouraging lagging groups to proudly cling to their own culture, or even resurrect it in some cases, with little concern that these groups' economic and educational lags might be— at least in part— a result of the cultures they were being encouraged to cling to.

The greatest abuse of all-the slave trade-was ended as a direct result of the political influence of evangelical Christians in Britain, who were connected with missionary work in Africa.

Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields...

Whether people are united by navigable waterways or cut off by rugged mountains or other geographical barriers has enormous cultural as well as economic and political significance.

The world dominance of Great Britain enabled it to impose its anti-slavery edicts on many other sovereign nations.

How, in the first place, did a peripheral island rise from primitive squalor to world domination?

If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes almost all the difference.

It was these elite families which produced such notable Americans of Scotch-Irish ancestry as Patrick Henry. Andrew Jackson, John Calhoun, James Polk, Zachary Taylor, Sam Houston. and others.

Uno de los mayores defectos de las economías manejadas por autoridades políticas, ya sea bajo el mercantilismo medieval o el comunismo moderno, es que la visión y perspicacia que surge entre la población no tienen el suficiente peso como para forzar a las autoridades a cambiar la manera en que hacen las cosas.

This [Ulysses] is obviously the wave of the future, I'm glad I'm dying of tuberculosis.

Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry (1888–1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction who was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand and wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. When she was 19, Mansfield left New Zealand and settled in the United Kingdom, where she became a friend of modernist writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. During the First World War, she contracted extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which led to her death at the age of 34.

Jose loved giving orders to the servants, and they loved obeying her. She always made them feel they were taking part in some drama.

If a child grows to adulthood without examining the view of life, self, and the world he or she grew up with, it's likely that quite a bit of this early "programming" will still affect the adult's opinion of self and the way in which he or she sees and interacts with the world. This can sometimes place limitations on how well the person copes with life and what they can accomplish.

Criticism is really nothing but one person's opinion raised to the level of "the way it is." It's designed to control, either through making the criticized person conform, or by making them feel guilty or ashamed.

Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.

Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

we no longer remember a time when neither party had a monopoly on God.

History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith," he says.

We don't notice when it shows up across the street or quietly takes up residence in our classrooms. And we just don't take its proponents at their word. Jerry Falwell, D. James Kennedy, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, and any number of other leaders of the Christian Right have told us that they abhor our public schools, and that they pray for the day when such schools cease to exist.

Russian leaders see America's Christian right as a tremendously useful vehicle for influencing American politics and government in a manner favorable to Russian interests.

It is not a social or cultural movement. It is a political movement, and its ultimate goal is power.

I believe that some of the most powerful resistance to Christian nationalism may ultimately come from those who identify as Christians themselves.