Quotes About Influence

you don't need money or weapons or a big platform to change the world. Sometimes, something as simple as a pen and a bit of imagination can alter the course of history.

some people you meet are meant to be a part of your world forever, but some are meant only to change the course of your life and then move on.

because our ability to raise our children is always colored by the lives we've lived before they came along. I

can't always change other people's minds. But you can change whether or not you listen to them, can't you?

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

But the past determines who we are, and it has led to this sartling future.

There are really only two civilisations in Asia worth talking about – China and Persia.

In 1971 about 175 big companies had full-time lobbyists—that is, "public affairs offices"—in Washington. By 1978 five hundred did, and just four years later, in the second Reagan year, nearly 2,500 corporations employed Washington lobbyists.

And right after the decision removing limits from PAC donations, the number of business PACs increased from three hundred to twelve hundred, generating gushers of money that helped triple the cost of campaigns for a House seat by the mid-1980s, which in turn gave PACs more power, and so on it has gone ever since, a vicious cycle corrupting democracy.

Protestantism has been that it gave a self-righteous oomph to moneymaking and capitalism—hard work accrues to God's glory, success looks like a sign of His grace. But it seems clear to me the deeper, broader, and more enduring influence of American Protestantism was the permission it gave to dream up new supernatural or otherwise untrue understandings of reality and believe them with passionate certainty.

In 1910 President Theodore Roosevelt, a rich Republican, said that "corporate funds" used "for political purposes" were "one of the principal sources of corruption" and had "tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men whose chief object is to hold and increase their power.

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

I never went out of my way to say anything about my drug use. I tried to hide it as long as I could. The main reason was that I didn't want some 15-year-old kid who likes our band to think it's cool to do heroin, you know? I think people who glamorise drugs are fucking assholes and, if there's a hell, they'll go there.

Fastow had found someone trusting and pliable. Fastow wanted a pupet, Bowen concluded, and he already controlled Ben Glisan's strings. p.338

Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.

Sprache ist eine Waffe. Haltet sie scharf.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

If somebody says "I love you" to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? "I love you, too.

The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Usted se hace carismático cuando logra cambiar la negatividad de las personas en algo más positivo.

I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

But they were masters of the mind game.