Quotes About Influence

Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.

Cold has a thousand ways of moving in the world: on the sea it gallops like a troop of horses, on the countryside it falls like a swarm of locusts, in the cities like a knife-blade it slashes the streets and penetrates the chinks of unheated houses.

What if it were as they say? If, while I believe I am writing in fun, what I write were really dictated by the extraterrestrials?

Each city receives its form from the desert it opposes.

Ogni libro nasce in presenza di altri libri, in rapporto e confronto ad altri libri.

U?wiadomi?em sobie w?asne ograniczenia - powiedzia? mi. - W procesie lektury zachodzi co?, na co nie mam wp?ywu." Mog?em mu odpowiedzie?, ?e tej granicy nie mo?e przekroczy? nawet najbardziej wszechobecna policja ?wiata. Mo?emy zabroni? czytania, lecz w dekrecie zabraniaj?cym czytania da?oby si? wyczyta? co? z prawdy, której woleliby?my nigdy nie ujawnia?...

When examples of openness of thought come from a single ruler, they count for nothing, except to show that he alone can afford to be like that because he is king.

Insomma, c'erano anche da noi tutte le cause della Rivoluzione francese. Solo che non eravamo in Francia, e la Rivoluzione non ci fu. Viviamo in un Paese dove si verificano sempre le cause e non gli effetti.

Forse non farò cose importanti, ma la storia è fatta di piccoli gesti anonimi, forse domani morirò, magari prima di quel tedesco, ma tutte le cose che farò prima di morire e la mia morte stessa saranno pezzetti di storia, e tutti i pensieri che sto facendo adesso influiscono sulla mia storia di domani, sulla storia di domani del genere umano.

Each city receives its form from the desert it opposes; and so the camel driver and the sailor see Despina, a border city between two deserts.

Forse non farò cose importanti, ma la storia è fatta di piccoli gesti anonimi, forse domani morirò, [...] ma tutte le cose che farò prima di morire e la mia morte stessa saranno pezzetti di storia, e tutti i pensieri che sto facendo adesso influiscono sulla mia storia di domani, sulla storia di domani del genere umano.

Under the law established by the possessor of the greatest number of devices, sickness and the sick will flourish.

strong actors have a lower interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is not at stake, whereas weak actors have a high interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is at stake.

IN THE BOOK OF LIFE we are chapters in one another's stories

Leadership does not depend on being right.

The public school has become the established church of secular society.

Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in an environment where they listen to people rather than to stars, speakers, or instructors. All over the world, one can see the rapid encroachment of the disciplined acquiescence that characterizes the audience, the client, the customer.

Rodeado por herramientas todopoderosas, el hombre queda reducido a ser instrumento de sus instrumentos.

Una vez que un hombre o una mujer ha aceptado la necesidad de la escuela, es fácil presa de otras instituciones

P3- modernised poverty combines the lack of power over circumstances with a loss of personal potency

The bourgeoisie who could afford to eliminate 'social death' by avoiding retirement, created 'childhood' to keep their young under control.

during the last century doctors have affected epidemics no more profoundly than did priests during earlier times. Epidemics came and went, imprecated by both but touched by neither. They are not modified any more decisively by the rituals performed in medical clinics than by those customary at religious shrines

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

School appropriates the money, men, and good will available for education and in addition discourages other institutions from assuming educational tasks. Work, leisure, politics, city living, and even family life depend on schools for the habits and knowledge they presuppose, instead of becoming themselves the means of education.