Quotes About Influence

The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

If I'd been born ugly, you'd never have heard of Pelé.

For better or worse, I was my father's son, and I intuited, however unclearly, that my life was inextricably bound up with his. I was who I was because of him. His blood was in my blood, his history was my history. Even my future, the person I might one day become, depended on him, because everything he'd ever seen or done or thought or felt flowed up through him and into me.

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked.

I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

So our livesIn acts exemplary, not only winOurselves good names, but doth to others giveMatter for virtuous deeds, by which we live.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

For we have a young lord and a middle-aged baronet—a shocking pair, who should not be allowed to live; but for family influence they would be doing their twenty years' penal servitude in jail, instead of living comfortably sequestered here. Like Ouida's high-born heroes, they "stick to their order," and do not mingle with the rest of us. They ignore us so completely that we cannot help looking up to them in spite of their vices—just as we should do outside.

Humans were still in the loop but no longer in control.

the economically more powerful culture may not be the more powerful culture spiritually and morally.

History has been called "an abyss in which Christianity has been swallowed up quite against its will." How

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.

She thinks your lady-love will rule you as the moon rules the tides.

But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman.

O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude...