Quotes About Influence

Los viles aduladores que se arrastran en las cortes sobre la alfombra de los poderosos pueden, al principio

El hombre sólo vale por lo que sabe. Saber es poder. Los sabios educan con el ejemplo, y nada hay que conquiste al espíritu humano más profundamente que el ejemplo (...) Socrates, filósofo griego, afirmaba con el peso de la autoridad enorme: "Sólo es útil el conocimiento que nos hace mejores". Séneca, otro pensador famoso, decía incrédulo: "¿Qué importa saber qué es una línea recta, si no se sabe lo que es la rectitud?".

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

Islam has existed for 1,400 years, includes one-fifth of the world's population, and has ruled geographical areas that are more extensive than any other world empire.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Paul Mokko avait été proclamé Sauveur du pays, parce qu'il avait le jour même tenu tête aux travailleurs: «Il a schlagué tous ces sales rats», disait-on. Et j'appris que grâce aux lézards, il avait été décoré ; et que par un tour de notaire, il avait arraché à deux «galeux» de l'Est une tranche du pays, et qu'on l'avait élu maire le jour même ; et que déjà l'île tout entière voyait en lui une «lumière».

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

Emotion is contagious.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.

And I wonder---if everything's connected, does that mean that everything can be manipulated and controlled centrally by those who know how to pull strings. . . .

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to

The more we appreciate from whence we came biologically, the better placed we will be to build up those cultural and environmental influences that help ameliorate the worst aspects of war.

The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.

A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it.

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

If you can only have one, which means more to you? Being someone or making a difference -Lynny

talentless airheads who are famous for absolutely nothing except being famous?

Is this about politics or money?' 'What's the difference?

This world is full of sheeple, not people, all longing to be told what to do, how to think. Sheeple who are lost without someone to follow. And you know the best part? Even when most of them know they're being led over a cliff, they'll still follow because it's less effort than thinking for themselves. It's the human condition.

I have left something of myself in all the children I have touched.