Quotes About Influence

Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?

Now we're back in a situation where the people who have the power and the money can get what they want by dictating what the mass of people ought to believe.

As it happened, what actually brought the cost of graphics hardware down was videogames—in particular Doom, which came out the year after Snow Crash was published.

Then he remembers that he is not just some interloper. He is a shareholder, and an important officer, in the corporation that employs them—he is paying them or oppressing them, take your pick.

I just about got this planet all sewn up." Rife delivers this line with an incredibly sardonic and contemptuous twang, the exaggerated accent of a cowboy who suspects that some Yankee pencilneck is looking down his nose at him.

other people's perfume sticks with you like a bladder infection.

She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward.

if you are still tied to reality by family or by some kind of regularizing influence in your day-to-day life, like having a job, then you've got a fighting chance.

Basically, anyone who reads the National Enquirer or watches pro wrestling on TV is easy to convert.

One way to classify artists is by to whom they are accountable.

Your life has nothing to do with you. It is about everyone whose life you touch and how you touch it.

Government is the perfect portrayer of the accuracy of the axiom that if you lie big enough, long enough, the lie becomes the "truth.

The world's natural calamities and disasters-its tornados and hurricanes, volcanoes and floods-its physical turmoil-are not created by us specifically. What is created by us is the degree to which these events touch our life

The horror of the Hitler Experience was not that he perpetrated it on the human race, but that the human race allowed him to. The astonishment is not only that a Hitler came along, but also that so many others went along.

If you are in a group whose consciousness does not reflect your own, and you are unable at this time to effectively alter the group consciousness, it is wise to leave the group, or the group could lead you. It will go where it wants to go, regardless of where you want to go.

We can look outside of ourselves for some larger example out in the sky someplace—maybe even in our imaginations. But in the end, we will imitate each other. In the end, children will imitate their parents, and parents will imitate their parents. And nation will imitate nation. In the end, we will take our cues from each other, until one of us steps out and says, "Not that way. This way.

For parents who do not want children questioning their values are not parents who love their children, but rather, who love themselves through their children.

Let's say that people tend to see in themselves what we see in them. The grander our vision, the grander their willingness to access and display the part of them we have shown them.

Acceptance of something places you in control of it. That which you deny you cannot control, for you have said it is not there. Therefore what you deny controls you.

Yet what kind of choice is free when to choose one thing over the other brings condemnation? How is "free will" free when it is not your will, but someone else's, which must be done?

How energy changes energy depends upon the energies that are interacting. It is all about which energies are mixing. This is the best news you could ever receive, because this is something you can control. You cannot totally control the energies outside of you, but you can totally control the energy within you—and that is where the power is.

Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can get away with—for the more people government helps, the more people help the government. Whom the government supports, supports the government.

Her biriniz Hayata, Kendi yaÅŸad???n?z hayatla, hayat hakk?nda mesaj gönderiyorsunuz. Soru: "Elçi misiniz?" deÄŸil. Soru: "GönderdiÄŸiniz mesaj ne?".

Absolute Power demands absolutely nothing.