Quotes About Influence

No alcanzabas el uno sesenta de estatura y con tu voz estentórea, tu seguridad, tu paso marcial opacabas a gente que te sacaba veinte centímetros. Yo era de esos que te rebasaban por una cabeza y aun así te recuerdo mucho más alto que yo. Si le preguntaras a quien te conoció cuál era tu estatura, con seguridad te situarían arriba del uno ochenta. Es extraño cómo una personalidad como la tuya puede cambiar el sentido de las proporciones.

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.

It is not faith that distinguishes our real leaders. It is doubt. Their ability to overcome it.

History is written by the victor.

The doctor's code is, 'First - do no harm.' The politician's code is, 'First - go on television.

An old man's beliefs matter little. I am the past. You, the future. What are your beliefs?

Cultural influences have set up the assumptions about the mind, the body, and the universe with which we begin; pose the questions we ask; influence the facts we seek; determine the interpretation we give these facts; and direct our reaction to these interpretations and conclusions.

Modern India is a product of Hindu tradition, the religion of Islam, and Western civilization.

There's no longer a need for the Communist Party USA because the Democratic Party has adopted all our platforms.

In every name there is a hidden force and when we repeat that name over and over we draw into our blood that spiritual force, which in time, finally transforms our whole body.

N-om fi È™i noi, fiinÈ›ele vii, un soi de zdrenÈ›e de hârtie? Nu cumva vântul sau altceva, cine È™tie ce, ne mân?, nev?zut, neînÈ›eles încoace È™i încolo, hot?rând ce s? facem È™i ce nu când noi, neÈ™tiutori, ne încredem în voin?? È™i zicem c?-i a noastr?.

The writer in his work must be like God in his creation—invisible and all-powerful: he must be everywhere felt, but never seen.

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.

Words whose sense is the most ill-defined are sometimes those that possess the most influence. Such, for example, are the terms democracy, socialism, equality, liberty, &c., whose meaning is so vague that bulky volumes do not suffice to precisely fix it. Yet it is certain that a truly magical power is attached to those short syllables, as if they contained the solution of all problems.

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

Crowds always, and individuals as a rule, stand in need of ready-made opinions on all subjects. The popularity of these opinions is independent of the measure of truth or error they contain, and is solely regulated by their prestige.

In a crowd every sentiment and act is contagious, and contagious to such a degree that an individual readily sacrifices his personal interest to the collective interest.

The only real tyrants that humanity has known have always been the memories of its dead or the illusions it has forged itself.

that the crowd is always intellectually inferior to the isolated individual, but that, from the point of view of feelings and of the acts these feelings provoke, the crowd may, according to circumstances, he better or worse than the individual. All depends on the nature of the suggestion to which the crowd is exposed.

From the primary school till he leaves the university a young man does nothing but acquire books by heart without his judgment or personal initiative being ever called into play.

The tyranny exercised unconsciously on men's minds is the only real tyranny, because it cannot be fought against.

It is time in particular that prepares the opinions and beliefs of crowds, or at least the soil on which they will germinate.

Acquired or artificial prestige is much the most common. The mere fact that an individual occupies a certain position, possesses a certain fortune, or bears certain titles, endows him with prestige, however slight his own personal worth.

It is the need not of liberty but of servitude that is always predominant in the soul of crowds. They are so bent on obedience that they instinctively submit to whoever declares himself their master.