Quotes About Influence

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. - Theses On Feuerbach (1845)

Circumstances make men just as much as men make circumstances.

The ruling ideas of each age have [n]ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

There are more idiots in the world than bright ones, but it's the odd good one that makes a big difference.

I've heard goldfish grow to the size of their surroundings; so does furniture.

We had the Stone Age and the Bronze Age, now we're living in the Interfering Age.

Only one who has practiced intensively in preparation for the transition that occurs at death and gained sufficient mental control is capable of exerting an influence on its future state of existence or avoiding rebirth altogether by achieving liberation.

The past is what you take with you.

not so much an agent provocateur as an agent passif, if such a thing could be said to exist. ("Sometimes," Perry said, "saying nothing can be your strongest weapon.")

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.

The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?"

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

When I was young, I loved black men.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.

The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.