Quotes About Influence

Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote.

The thing worth noting with manipulators is, curiously, once you realize what they are, they become strikingly easy to manipulate. —

Culture was culture, and money was money.

Maybe healthy communities thrive, and sick ones become cults.

A storyteller makes us feel something. Makes us give a shit when we have no good reason to do so. Fun is not the last stop on the story train. The storyteller is master manipulator. The storyteller is cackling puppetmaster.

It starts with my mother….Boys get fucked up by their fathers, right? That's why so many tales are really Daddy Issue stories at their core, because men run the world, and men get to tell their stories first. If women told most of the stories, though, then all the best stories would be about Mommy Problems.

Science is trumped by ignorance when the ignorant are given a vote. We have the program in other

Just remember: there is no Muse, and if there is a Muse, you own it – it doesn't own you.)

Lies are like leashes. Tug them just so, and all who believe them will comply.)

Historia magistra vitae est

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labours under the weight of fear.

Thus, being ignorant of its nature, the masses suppose that men of wealth, influence, and important family connections are the best...as a result of this error on the part of the commons, the wealth rather than the excellence of a few men has come to control the state

When you have lived your life under such dominant image-leadership, its pressures put a certain invisible English on the cue ball of your development: It influences all of your ideas about who you should be, all the ways in which you become yourself.

The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy. —Alex Carey, social scientist

The vast majority of you (and democracy is, after all, "majority rule") don't actively participate in, protect, fight for or even understand democracy. That's perfectly natural, mainly because you've never really had a democracy. What you have here, technically, is an oligarchy dressed down and slumming around in the hooded sweatshirt and baggy jeans of democracy. In

Executive leadership ultimately goes to the candidate wearing the biggest codpiece. I

Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy--they should be about what mark you leave in the world.

Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do and what make it leaves in the world.

My motivation, even in anticipated shame, lay always in others. You can take the woman out of the upstairs, but you can't take the upstairs out of her.

That's sort of what happened with Cassie and me. I guess I was Goya, just doing my thing, and she was the French Revolution.

When, as a woman, you make yourself the work of art, and when you are then what everyone looks at, then whatever else, you aren't alone.

Living things are restrained by chains. The laws of nature, the flow of time, the vessel known as your "body", and the existence called your mind. The one chain that people can wield, words.

But it is a very difficult thing to change the future. The slightest turn of phrase…action and the human soul. The future changes direction based on those things.

The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.