Quotes About Influence

One woman couldn't change the world. She could just make small parts of it better.

Too many guilty people get off scot-free if they have money or influence.

The immediate influence of behavior is always more effective than that of words.

No instinct tells him what he has to do, and no tradition tells him what he ought to do; sometimes he does not even know what he wishes to do. Instead, he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).

For in every case man retains the freedom and the possibility of deciding for or against the influence of his surroundings.

he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).

Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insuffcient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone. Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually.

lack of sleep, insuffcient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone. Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances

During this psychological phase one observed that people with natures of a more primitive kind could not escape the influences of the brutality which had surrounded them in camp life. Now, being free, they thought they could use their freedom licentiously and ruthlessly. The only thing that had changed for them was that they were now the oppressors instead of the oppressed. They became instigators, not objects, of wilful force and injustice.

An American woman once confronted me with the reproach, "How can you still write some of your books in German, Adolf Hitler's language?

La influencia inmediata de una determinada conducta siempre es más eficaz que las palabras.

in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.

suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.

The immediate influence of behavior is always more effective than that of words. But

human being is completely and unavoidably influenced by his surroundings.

Instead, he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).

man is no more than a product of many conditional and environmental factors—be they of a biological, psychological or sociological nature?

Under the influence of a world which no longer recognized the value of human life and human dignity, which had robbed man of his will and had made him an object to be exterminated (having planned, however, to make full use of him first—to the last ounce of his physical resources)—under this influence the personal ego finally suffered a loss of values.

in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone. Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him—mentally and spiritually.

Ultimately, man is not subject to the conditions that confront him; rather, these conditions are subject to his decision.

M]an is by no means merely a product of heredity and environment. There is a third element: decision. Man ultimately decides for himself! And, in the end, education must be education toward the ability to decide.

It is not true that the deed is irretrievably lost in the past, but rather that it is indelibly stamped in the past!

And America? It was being taken over by corrupt politicians, a mainstream media bent on whipping up divisions, and an Internet full of crazies.

Once you put a romantic image in someone's head, it's hard to get it out.