Quotes About Influence

Pero los periódicos ¿siguen las tendencias de la gente o las crean? —Ambas cosas, señorita Fresia. La gente al principio no sabe qué tendencia tiene, luego nosotros se lo decimos y entonces la gente se da cuenta de que la tiene.

There are words that give power, others that make us all the more derelict

A scoundrel is an evil heliotrope turning always in the direction of the most powerful.

We don't see them, but, invisible, they act all around us.

Las redes sociales le dan el derecho de hablar a legiones de idiotas que antes hablaban sólo en el bar después de un vaso de vino, sin dañar a la comunidad. Entonces eran rápidamente silenciados, pero ahora tienen el mismo derecho a hablar que un Premio Nobel. Es la invasión de los imbéciles

the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

luther, he ruined the bible by translating it into their own language.

Philosophy has a practical power: it contributes to the changing of the world.

Los simples, Adso, no pueden escoger libremente su herejía: se aferran al que predica en su tierra, al que pasa por la aldea o por la plaza.

By studying the human signifying activity it influences its course.

qué influencia tuvieron Gemma sobre Dante o Helena sobre Descartes, por no hablar de las muchísimas esposas que la historia ignora? ¿Y si todas las obras de Aristóteles en realidad las hubiera escrito su esposa Erpilis? Nunca lo sabremos. La historia, escrita por los maridos, ha condenado a las esposas al anonimato.

Vale para el Pentágono y para la CIA, pero no me dirás que todas las revistas de coches dependen de los servicios secretos de la demoplutojudeocracia al acecho.

Such is the power of the truth that, like good, it is its own propagator

Musa'ya inanan sevgili kardeslerim, Fransa krali sizi Hiristiyan oomaya zorluyorsa Hristiyan olun, baska turlu yapamazsiniz cunku, ama Musa'nin yasalarini yureklerinizde saklayin: Malinizi mulkunuzu elinizden aliyorlarsa, ogullarinizi tuccar olarak yetistirin ki, yavas yavas onlar da Hristiyanlarin mallarini mulklerini ellerinden alsinlar.

To the anonymous divinity of Technological Communication our answer could be: "Not Thy, but our will be done.

But then, apart from politicians and the pope, why does anyone else use Twitter? Perhaps to feel important.

The simple cannot choose their personal heresy, Adso; they cling to the man preaching in their land, who passes through their village or stops in their square. This is what their enemies exploit.

Peygamberlerden kork Adso; gerçek uÄŸruna ölmeye haz?r olanlardan da; çünkü onlar genellikle birçok insan? da kendileriyle birlikte ölmeye sürüklerler, bazen kendilerinden önce, bazen de kendilerinin yerine.

I do not ask much, only Total Power

the kind of influence printing has had on modern sensibility… : the shattering of the intellectual experience into uniform and repeatable units, the establishment of a sense of homogeneity and continuity that generated, at a distance of centuries, the assembly line, and presided over the ideology of the mechanical age, as well as the cosmology of infinitesimal calculation.

La letteratura, contribuendo a formare la lingua, crea identità e comunità.

At times this can be so. Often books speak of other books. Often a harmless book is like a seed that will blossom into a dangerous book, or it is the other way around: it is the sweet fruit of a bitter stem. In reading Albert, couldn't I learn what Thomas might have said? Or in reading Thomas, know what Averroës said?

Let us forget for a moment that some of these false tales produced positive effects, while others produced horror and shame. All created something, for better or worse. Nothing in their success is inexplicable. What represents a problem is rather the way they managed to replace other tales that today we consider true.

Lampedusa, Bassani y Cassola. Por mi parte, hoy