Quotes About Influence

There are three kinds of despots.  There is the despot who tyrannises over the body.  There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul.  There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul and body alike.  The first is called the Prince.  The second is called the Pope.  The third is called the People.  The Prince may be cultivated. 

To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people-that is all.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. 

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth;

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry? asked the duchess after a pause. Especially when one has been wounded by it, answered Lord Henry.

Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope, in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

Women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.

Yesterday evening Mrs Arundel insisted on my going to the window, and looking at the glorious sky, as she called it. Of course I had to look at it. She is one of those absurdly pretty Philistines to whom one can deny nothing. And what was it? It was simply a very second-rate Turner, a Turner of a bad period, with all the painter's worst faults exaggerated and over-emphasized.

Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.

One has a right to judge of a man by the effect he has over his friends.

But do let us go. Dorian, you must not stay here any longer. It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.

Influir en una persona supone darle nuestra alma

Comprendí que estaba ante alguien cuya simple personalidad era tan fascinante que, si me abandonaba a ella, absorbería mi naturaleza entera, mi alma y hasta mi propio arte.

Más de la mitad de la cultura moderna depende de lo que no debería leerse

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of view.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

At the beginning a man was wealthy because he was powerful — now he is powerful because he has money. Intellect reaches the throne only when money puts it there. Democracy is the completed equating of money with political power.

for no god may undo what another god has done...