Quotes About Influence

But you are telling me, Susan, that the 'Society for Humanity' is right; and that Mankind has lost its own say in its future.' 'It never had any, really. It was always at the mercy of economic and sociological forces it did not understand--at the whims of climate, and the fortunes of war.

if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted

frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.

Los seguidores del Viejo de la Montaña fueron llamados hashishin («fumadores de hachís»). Para los europeos, este nombre se convirtió en la voz «asesinos».

Mankind has lost its own say in its future.' 'It never had any, really.

And it was the amount of energy a single human could produce that dictated military potential, standard of living, happiness, and all besides.

The men in this station survive by virtue of their jellyfish quality. There isn't one who would stand against him. Trying to rally the others to put pressure on Hallam would be like asking strands of cooked spaghetti to come to attention.

Men who rule by tricks of the mind need not necessarily be men in obvious power.

He estado allí. ¡Es una ratonera hedionda! Supongo que puede usted llamarla república, pero siempre hay alguien de la familia Argo que consigue salir elegido Comodoro. Y si da la casualidad de que no te gusta... te ocurren cosas .

Now any dogma, primarily based on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user.

La religión es una de las grandes influencias civilizadoras de la historia

Aparentemente, las multitudes se manejan más fácilmente que los individuos. Parece una paradoja.

en 1798, un anatomista italiano, Luigi Galvani, descubrió que bajo la influencia de una chispa eléctrica se podía conseguir que los músculos muertos se crispasen y contrajesen como si estuviesen vivos. ¿Era posible que la electricidad fuese el secreto de la vida?

Young man, my powers, on paper, are enormous, but I can only succeed when the public is willing to let me. Let me give you a lesson in practical politics.

Can you fight a force which can make you surrender willingly when it so desires; can make you a faithful servant when it so desires?

The times make the man

I call myself the Mule – but not because of my strength – obviously–

Ez a maga dolga, nem? Mivégre tettem meg magát akkor köznevelésügyi és propagandaminiszternek? – Nyilván, hogy idÅ' elÅ'tt nyomorultul a sírba tegyen, amennyi segítséget kapok magától.

The Foundation can never lose, but that does not mean the rulers of the Foundation can't.

Tenía unas páginas de poesía, que guardaba con indecible cariño, donde se podía leer que lo que una mano había hecho nunca podía deshacerlo.

I, as Mayor of Terminus City, have just

Could a man really know what was best for him? How easily men were deluded by a word, a smile, a gesture.

Somewhere I had had a trace of faith in free will, but this morning I felt sure that man possessed as much choice as the clockwork of my wristwatch or the fly that stopped on the edge of my saucer. The same powers were driving Hitler, Stalin, the Pope, the Rabbi of Gur, a molecule in the center of the earth, and a galaxy billions of lightyears distant from the Milky Way. Blind powers? Seeing powers? It did not matter any more. We were fated to play our little games and to be crushed.

He had shown me letters he had received not only from Kafka but from Jakob Wassermann, Stefan Zweig, Romain Rolland, Ilya Ehrenburg, and Martin Buber.