Quotes About Influence

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

They have the authority of ignorance and that is something you simply cannot combat." – John Steinbeck

The Bank--or the Company--needs-wants-insists-must have-as though the Bank or the Company were a monster, with thought and feeling, which had ensnared them.

The names of places carry a charge of the people who named them.

Lead 'em around and around,'' said Joad. "Sling 'em in the irrigation ditch. Tell 'em they'll burn in hell if they don't think like you. What the hell you want to lead 'em someplace for? Jus' lead 'em.

The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or a breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.

The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or a breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil. Naturally

We know that--all that. It's not us, it's the bank. A bank isn't like a man. Or an owner with fifty thousand acres, he isn't like a man either. That's the monster.

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

Sometimes I think a do-gooder is the most dangerous thing in the world.

And then—it was very fast, almost a click in the brain—Adam knew that, for him at least, his father's methods had no reference to anything in the world but his father.

She frightened her grandchildren because she had no weakness

Viskas nuo žmogaus priklauso. Vienintel? j?ga - pats žmogus. Tik juo gali pasikliauti.

Ever' time Pa seen writin', somebody took somepin away from 'im.

Good," he said. "A group. Mary and you and the two kids. Subject: men—their weakness and stupidity and how to use them.

There is little difference between this tractor and a tank. The people are driven, intimidated, hurt by both.

no se puede luchar contra el dinero sin él

Without money you cannot fight money.

The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

when people have heard of you, favorably or not, they change; they become, through shyness or the other qualities that publicity inspires, something they are not under ordinary circumstances

The church supper is the grandfather of the country club, just as the Thursday poetry reading in the basement under the vestry sired the little theater.

She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall.

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.