Quotes About Influence

God created man, and man returned the favor.

The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.

now they were expected to walk with a heavy step and newfound power through their neighborhoods. In every other part of the city, however, they were still expected to vanish, or worse.

What mighty ills have not been done by woman!Who was 't betrayed the Capitol?—A woman!Who lost Mark Antony the world?—A woman!Who was the cause of a long ten years' war,And laid at last old Troy in ashes?—Woman!Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!

Thomas P. O'Neill (Jr.)

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.

Be this as it may, they decided by vote which of the books out of the collection they had made, should be the WORD OF GOD, and which should not. They rejected several; they voted others to be doubtful, such as the books called the Apocrypha; and those books which had a majority of votes, were voted to be the word of God. Had they voted otherwise, all the people since calling themselves Christians had believed otherwise ; for the belief of the one comes from the vote of the other.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

for as we are never in a proper condition of doing justice to others, while we continue under the influence of some leading partiality, so neither are we capable of doing it to ourselves while we remain fettered by any obstinate prejudice. And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.

Perhaps no two events ever united so intimately and forceably to combat and expel prejudice, as the Revolution of America, and the Alliance with France. Their effects are felt, and their influence already extends as well to the old world as the new. Our style and manner of thinking have undergone a revolution, more extraordinary than the political revolution of the country. We see with other eyes; we hear with other ears; and think with other thoughts, than those we formerly used.

The wise, and the worthy, need not the triumph of a pamphlet;

Who the Author of this Production is, is wholly unnecessary to the Public, as the Object for Attention is the DOCTRINE ITSELF, not the MAN. Yet it may not be unnecessary to say, That he is unconnected with any Party, and under no sort of Influence public or private, but the influence of reason and principle.

The parliament always following the strongest side.

The rich are in general slaves to fear, and submit to courtly power with the trembling duplicity of a spaniel.

I proceed to speak of three principal means that have been employed in all ages, and perhaps in all countries, to impose [religion] upon mankind. Those three means are Mystery, Miracle, and Prophecy. The first two are incompatible with true religion, and the third ought always to be suspected

H?ristiyan kilisesi ad? verilen kuram?n pagan mitolojisinin kuyruÄŸuna tak?l?p yeÅŸerdiÄŸini gözlemlemek ilgi çekicidir.

People take charge and then you find out what they wanted power for.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.

Rhetoric accomplishes its work by inducing us to shift, at least potentially, how we dwell or see ourselves dwelling in the world.

When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

he who feeds you, controls you

It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves "thinking people" respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned to respond to certain sounds