Quotes About Influence

The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past.

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.

I am against government by crony.

No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

A man is a thousand parts, All of them other people." -Harold Robbins in The Inheritors

To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

But it is a historical fact that the Jews, and no one else, gave the world the Bible. It is a historical fact that the Jews introduced to the pagan world the idea of a God who demanded righteousness......Even most of the books of the New Testament were written by Jews.

We can do our best to change people, to summon them to be whom they are capable of being, but ultimately they only people we will always have the power to change will be ourselves.

If you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator need do is a simple two-step process: Give you what you crave, and then threaten to take it away. Every drug dealer in the world plays this game.

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

Abraham Lincoln. When he met Stowe, it is claimed that he said, "So you're the little woman that started this great war!

An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race.

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.

Oh my Eva, whose little hour on earth did so much good... what account have I to give for my long years?

But who, sir, makes the trader? Who is most to blame? The enlightened, cultivated, intelligent man, who supports the system of which the trader is the inevitable result, or the poor trader himself? You make the public statement that calls for his trade, that debauches and depraves him, till he feels no shame in it; and in what are you better than he?

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.

Greasy or not greasy, they will govern you, when their time comes," said Augustine; "and they will be just such rulers as you make them.

Eliza's steady, consistent piety, regulated by the constant reading of the sacred word, made her a proper guide for the shattered and wearied mind of her mother. Cassy yielded at once, and with her whole soul, to every good influence, and became a devout and tender Christian.

They that cannot govern themselves cannot govern others (Pg. 238).

My father showed the exact sort of talent for a statesman. He could have divided Poland as easily as an orange, or trod on Ireland as quietly and systematically as any living.

Women are the real architects of society.