Quotes About Influence

Gringos! They have copied us again

Every Mexican was a diluted Indian, invaded by milk like the coffee in Cayetana's cup.

El tráfico de drogas en México nació subordinado a la política desde los tiempos de la Revolución, se reforzó en el Estado posrevolucionario dominado por el partido de Estado (PNR-PRM-PRI) y así continuó durante siete décadas.

Me decía: ¡habrían tenido que hacerme leer a Sade antes que todas las demás cosas!

No obstante, los Noailles me escribieron para preguntarme si no podría encontrar algún trabajo interesante para Aldous Huxley. ¡Deliciosa ingenuidad!

Today`s culture is unfortunately inseparable from economic and military power. A ruling nation can impose its culture and give a worldwide fame to a second-rate writer like (Ernest Hemingway). (John Steinbeck) is important due to American guns. Had (John Dos Passos) and (William Faulkner) been born in Paraguay or in Turkey, who`d read them?

From Hunayn ibn-Ishak (Diogenes,8), we learn about his view of women and education: when he saw a man teaching a girl how to read and write, he advised him not to make a bad thing even worse.

Ninguém é nada sozinho, somos o nosso comportamento com o outro".

Gregorio enseguida comprobó que la gente no tarda en convencerse de que lo que le conviene siempre que otra persona lo apoye en su razonamiento. O lo que es lo mismo: que dos opiniones solidarias forman una convicción.

enseguida comprobó que la gente no tarda en convencerse de lo que le conviene siempre que otra persona la apoye en su razonamiento. O lo que es lo mismo: que dos opiniones solidarias forman una convicción.

conducir es liderar, no es dar órdenes.

In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.

If the communist party under the leadership of Joma Sison insists on being too radical, too incorrigible, they will fail. They will, as the saying goes, "die on the vine." They will wither and be forgotten. The people themselves will reject them. They should instead abide by the people's interest...

One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.

Linder looks less like a politician than a member of a fascistically inclined boy band.

To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed.

Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.

Abusiveness is not a product of a man's emotional injuries or of deficits in his skills. In reality, abuse springs from a man's early cultural training, his key male role models, and his peer influences.

For many abusive men, pornography has shaped their sexuality since they were teenagers or even younger. It has helped to form their view of what women are like and what they ought to be. When a graduate of what I call "The Pornography School of Sexuality" discovers, for example, that his partner does not find a slap in the face arousing, he thinks that's evidence of something sexually wrong with her.

Each generation stamps itself onto the next one. The impression is indelible. Like the flowers in my mother's gardens that come and go with the changing seasons, life re-creates itself. And the best of life must be nurtured if it is to thrive.

Life went on whether a person participated in it or not.

I have as much input to the blues I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

Books only change the world if the world is capable of digesting them.

I do not think there is a person in this world who has been a more ardent admirer of him than I have been. His life and work have been an inspiration to the whole earth, shedding light in the dark places which so sadly needed light . His memory calls forth my most sincere homage, love, and esteem. {Burbank on the great Robert Ingersoll , whom he admired so much that he requested Ingersoll 's eulogy for his brother, Ebon Ingersoll, to be read at his own funeral}