Quotes About Influence

Isn't it interesting, that a black man, who is a Muslim, and has the name 'Muhammad', is the most beloved athlete in the world?

One of the cures for heedlessness is keeping good and sincere company. It is recognized in virtually all traditions and cultures that the company one keeps has inroads to one's heart and morality. When surrounded by people who are sincere and trustworthy, one only benefits from them. Even when a person errs, good companions remind him and set him right.

Don't ever diminish the power of words. Words move hearts and hearts move limbs.

I don't want them to forget Ruth, I just want them to remember me!

Baseball needs me because it needs somebody to stir the pot, and I need it because it's my life. It's the means I have to make a little difference in the world.

It used to be the players were here (lowering his arm) and owners were here (raising his arm). Now, it's the other way. There's so much money.

I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.

Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.

Empire abroad entails tyranny at home

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

Madame Politics is like Venus: they whom she decoys into her castle perish.

I will bow myself before him who is influenced by a noble conviction, and who only desires that which is conducive to good, be he prince or man of the people.

everyone ought to be interested in politics. If we all had been, then maybe the Nazis wouldn't have got their hands on power;

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Deus é bom em salvar almas, mas o temos mantido fora de nossas grandes decisões sobre educação, ciência, política, etc. (p. 32)

I have always believed that it is the artist who creates a work, but a society that turns it into a work of art. - Johannes Cladders

Almightiness consists much less in that which human beings imagine it to be, namely, changing things in accordance with one's own will—Jesus proved, through his miracles, that he could do that, too—than in exerting an influence on the freedom of human hearts without overpowering them. Enticing forth from them, through the mysterious power of grace, their free assent to the truly good.

Maximus remained a child of his time, a disciple of his master. But the fact that he was able to develop his own basic insight, in spite of such influences, makes him one of the greatest thinkers in Christian intellectual history.