Quotes About Influence

PROVERB: "A tavern can't corrupt a good man, and a synagogue can't reform a bad one.

Aristotle doesn't exist for Nietzsche.

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Kings are the slaves of history.

Everything depends on upbringing.

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light all around her.

So LISTEN UP, class! Today we're going to learn all about chain reactions.

A mom's power never really diminishes, no matter how big a child grows.

Right now, who is really more powerful? Google or the NSA?

Nobody can cause another man evil unless the second party involved allows him to.

Al actuar y ser como eres ahora, estás determinando la forma de ser y actuar de los demás.

In other words we humans seek to outwit and control each other not just because of some tangible goal in the outside world that we're trying to achieve, but because of a lift we get psychologically. This is the reason we see so many irrational conflicts in the world both at the individual level and the level of nations.

That humans are stuck in a kind of competition for each other's energy. When we can get others to acquiesce to our view, they identify with us and that pulls their energy into us and we feel stronger.

Every human being . . . illustrates with their lives how he or she thinks a human being is supposed to live.

other words we humans seek to outwit and control each other not just because of some tangible goal in the outside world that we're trying to achieve, but because of a lift we get psychologically. This is the reason we see so many irrational conflicts in the world both at the individual level and at the level of nations.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

under the influence of a political framework like our own. We

We live in the attention of others. We turn to it as flowers to the sun.

How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?