Quotes About Influence

Luego cambia su opinión. Convence a la bombilla de que un repuesto es la mejor manera de conseguir luz aquí.

For the record, you are a very, very good bad influence.

He who would change the future course of the river must be prepared to get his hands wet in the waters of the past. —"On the Way of Water," from the journal of Hayden Stone

The woman always wins. With courage, intelligence, and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on earth, the human male, to his knees.

Power floats like money, like language, like theory.

Mass(age) is the message.

deconstruction and other French theories] was the gift of the French. They gave Americans a language they did not need. It was like the Statue of Liberty. Nobody needs French theory.

Gombrowicz, Nabokov, Svevo, Schnitzler, Canetti. How is it that the greatest are, in their varying degrees, violently hostile to psychoanalysis? And, ultimately, towards the end of his life, Freud himself ?

There is no longer any difference between the economic and the political, because the same language reigns in both, from one end to the other; a society therefore where the political economy, literally speaking, is finally fully realized.

Tukenmeye baslayan bir politika dunyasiyla birlikte Cumhurbaskanlari, ilkel toplumlarda bir iktidar kuklasindan baska bir sey olmayan kabile seflerine benzemektedirler.

Action or exaction? Voting, petitions, solidarity, information, human rights: all these things are gently extorted from you in the form of personal or promotional blackmail.

We are simplified by technical manipulation. And this manipulation goes off on a crazy course when we reach digital manipulation

The corruption of power is to inscribe into the real everything which is found in dreams….

The stupidity of all commercial or cultural anti- Americanism. As if Americanism did not run through every society, every nation, and every individual today, like modernity itself.

Everywhere socialization is measured by the exposure to media messages. Whoever is underexposed to the media is desocialized or virtually asocial.

Avoid having power over anyone, unless it be the power of life and death.

As a result. the more the hegemony of the global consensus is reinforced. the greater the risk, or the chances, of its collapse.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

one should always talk well about oneself! The word spreads around and in the end, noone remembers where it started

I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.

I grant you that, if you'll admit, as I do, that we are pawns of an unknown force that lives within us that dictates our actions and compels us to speak this language.

Imitate, and what is personal will eventually come despite yourself.

He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

We only serve as a model to the portrait of our fame