Quotes About Influence

Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent.

Sunnie. Sometimes you got to think about whether you want someone to be a piece of fabric that fits into your life or not. As you sew the strips in, they become a part of what you do, how you think, how you end up. Good or bad, that's something you can never rip out and remake.

The person who represents a Lobby in Congress is never the one who makes the real decisions; the real leaders are rarely identifiable and are never held responsible for their actions. If a puppet gets in trouble they sacrifice him and haul out another.

The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

Once Trump got his hands around this promising idea, he basically strangled it.

Children are not born with their hearts hardened in this fashion, not even Irish-Catholic children. They have to be taught by professionals.

From the moment I own a book, even before I open it to the first page, I feel that it has in some way changed my life. I treat my books the same way I treat my clothes or my shoes or my records: I use them.

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

The media is trained to find bad news and broadcast it to you. The more they do it and you believe it, the worst the world looks. It then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. You live from the new paradigm of scarcity and the media, doing its job, broadcasts it. You don't even see it happening. It feels real. You take it as reality.

Every man in a big position knows in his own heart that forces entirely outside himself have played a large part in his making." —Bruce Barton, 1928   "Many

Because we are social animals, ideas seem more believable when more people believe them. They require social proof before they gain general acceptance.

What Communism was to the twentieth century, Islam will be for the next one hundred years.19

You people in all parts of the world, who have passed away over the ages, you did not live only to fertilize the earth with your ashes, so that at the end of time your descendants could become happy through European culture

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

It is greatly understated to compare humans to an absorbent sponge, a glowing fuse; they are each an innumerable harmony, a living self that has an effect on all of the forces that surround them.

They don't need the support of the majority. Sometimes all that's needed is a group of people loud enough and influential enough to to change the world and make it the way they want it to be. It doesn't even have to be a huge group, as long as some of them establish their own personal preferences as the only real truth and make enough noise to give the impression that the forgotten, neglected masses are behind them.

Study Bach, there you will find everything.

Proven environmental diseases, such as colon cancer, coronary artery disease, and adult-onset diabetes, all run in families—not necessarily because of genes, but because family members share the same dietary patterns. Simply

Without the pen of Paine , the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion? { Letter to Thomas Jefferson , May 19, 1821 }

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

Thomas Jefferson still survives

The world has suffered no greater literary loss than the loss of Sappho's poems.