Quotes About Influence

And you'll need a leader to do it. A man of bold vision, one who promises you a world where you're not only safe—you're in charge. Not equal rights. Superiority for the superior.

It's kind of a circle. When people are scared, it's easy for them to decide anything different is evil. To forget that everyone is basically the same, that we all love our families and want regular lives. And what makes it worse is that some people use that. They make others scared on purpose, because they know if they do, everyone will start acting stupid." "But why would they want that?" "It's a way to control people. A way to get what they want.

He had a theory going about cities, that the dominant industry of the town filtered into every level of the place, from the architecture to the discourse.

Money at that level was not something that could be counted; it was dynamic, a living thing that swelled and shrank and consumed the money of others, companies buying companies buying companies for fifty iterations.

Senator Blake Crouch (D-Colo.), who

When people are scared, it's easy for them to decide anything different is evil. To forget that everyone is basically the same, that we all love our families and want regular lives. And what makes it worse is that some people use that. They make others scared on purpose, because they know if they do, everyone will start acting stupid. -But why would they want that? -It's a way to control people. A way to get what they want.

They want us all wound up and mistrusting each other. Norms and abnorms, left and right, rich and poor, all of it. The more we fear, the more we need them. And the more we need them, the more powerful they get.

No matter how smoothly you tossed a stone into water, there were always ripples. Alongside

Because artists are more dangerous than murderers. The most prolific serial killer might have dozens of victims, but poets can lay low entire generations.

No matter how smoothly you tossed a stone into water, there were always ripples.

Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.

Who holds the ultimate responsibility for the story? The writer or the reader, the reader or the writer . . .

Content—assuming it is honest and transparent—is the greatest sales tool in the world today.

I would rather be wrong with Plato than right with such men as these [the Pythagoreans].

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

There were poets before Homer.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

from ages seven through thirteen I felt a kind of age-loyalty to characters [ Out of the Garden ].

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.