Quotes About Influence

Death squads have been created and used by the CIA around the world - particularly the Third World - since the late 1940s, a fact ignored by the elite-owned media.

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

One dies only if he's not anymore in the hearts and minds of those who know him. - Monkey D. Luffy

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . .

I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.

I like to think that people live on in other people's memories.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Authority forgets a dying king.

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?

even though the dead are beyond our touch, they remain fully dimensional, fully capable of affecting our decisions and quandaries.

I want to go on living even after death!

I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.

Not all of me shall die.

Any rap record from 1989 to 1999, besides [ones on] Death Row, we did promotions for it. We had our hand in everything.

Their naive fucking impertinence about carnal lusting! Seducer of the young. Socrates, Strindberg, and me.

Non avevo mai giudicato così severamente un adulto in vita mia - né i miei genitori, né Alvin e neppure lo zio Monty - e non avevo capito, fino a quel momento, come la sfacciata vanità di certi perfetti idioti possa avere un'influenza decisiva sulla sorte delle persone

Franklin Delano Roosevelt commends "the reading of the Bible" to my brother. The way they got these kids to die. Commends.

The authority of beauty is a very irrational thing.