Quotes About Influence

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.

We've had the goddam Ages of Faith, we've had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity

where would Christianity be today if Jesus had been given ten to twenty with time off for good behavior

Power does not corrupt people, people corrupt people.

There's folks you just don't need. You're better off without em. Your life is just a little better because they ain't in it.

Reading, his therapist had suggested, had likely been his first drug.

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

It was the root of street cool, too, the knowing posture that implied connection, invisible lines up to the hidden levels of influence.

Hitler had had entirely too brilliant a graphics department, and had understood the power of branding all too well.

Bevor man bei Sich eine Depression oder geringes Selbstwertgefühl diagnostiziert... sollte man sicher gehen, dass man nicht nur von Arschlöchern umgeben ist.

Case had always taken it for granted that the real bosses, the kingpins in a given industry, would be both more and less than people.

Whenever the media do try to pick it up, it slides like a lone noodle from their chopsticks.

She wondered how powerful money could actually be, if one had enough of it, really enough. She supposed that only the Vireks of the world could really know, and very likely they were functionally incapable of knowing; asking Virek would be like interrogating a fish in order to learn more about water.

Cultural Marxism was what other people called political correctness, according to Brown, but it was really cultural Marxism, and had come to the United States from Germany, after World War II, in the cunning skulls of a clutch of youngish professors from Frankfurt. The Frankfurt School, as they'd called themselves, had wasted no time in plunging their intellectual ovipositors repeatedly into the unsuspecting body of old-school American academia.

No," Tessa said, "you've got it exactly backwards. People don't know what they want, not before they see it. Every object of desire is a found object. Traditionally, anyway." Chevette

I had read and admired Ballard and Burroughs, and I thought of them as very powerful effect pedals. You get to a certain place in the story and you just step on the Ballard.

Something she'd gotten from Burton

How could she have imagined that it would be possible to live, to move, in the unnatural field of Virek's wealth without suffering distortion? Virek had taken her up, in all her misery, and had rotated her through the monstrous, invisible stresses of his money, and she had been changed.

UN's got deep roots in the demonology.

Hubertus Bigend, a nominal Belgian who looks like Tom Cruise on a diet of virgins' blood and truffled chocolates.

The machine, the structure, was there, was real. Virek's money was a sort of universal solvent, dissolving barriers to his will . . .

Addictions, he thought, turning right, toward Seven Dials' name-sake obelisk, started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn't seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were, his therapist in Basel had said, less intelligent than goldfish.

ha visto lo que Laney puede hacer con los datos, y lo que éstos a su vez pueden hacer con él. No desea verlo otra vez

They don't buy the product: They recycle the information. They use it to try to impress the next person they meet.