Quotes About Influence

to think nothing about the opinion of his society (if he be in any sense a member) is to be unconsciously influenced by it.

Not all influences of colonialism were necessarily bad. Along with enslavement, subjugation, exploitation, loss of cultural heritage, and repression, colonists also brought modern scientific methods in fields such as medicine and agriculture. Note that this can be no apologia for colonialism, because these advances could have been gained without the societies' becoming colonised, as in Japan.

The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.

Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals.

though we belong to this country as much as this country belongs to us, we only move through its rooms as momentary visitors, projecting our ideas on its walls, that the best we can do is live a good life, perhaps add a couple replicas of ourselves...

A celebrity once-removed, driving his groupies agog, but then not flaunting it, and not asking for it, either.

It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself.

Does that mean the French are getting in on the act?" "Actually, they were in on the act before we got here. That's why so much French is spoken. Their legal system, for instance, is based on the Napoleonic Code." "You want to watch that. They could take advantage of that. You want to get them out." "In fact, we did get them out. That's why we're here.

Before he can DECIDE to do good, his parents must CONDITION him to do good.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or how powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will sill pretty much depend on the weather.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.

But women please note: with great power, comes great responsibility. A responsibility to yourself, a responsibility to the world, a responsibility to your world—and everything you let in it. This

I write about cats. Cats, when you read this, write about me. Be the change you want to see.

One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.

Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)

The only approved American models were James and Twain, neither of whom could be imitated.

There have always been people like you, Nicholas Flamel. People who think they know what's best, who decide what people should see and read and listen to, who ultimately try to shape how the rest of the world think and acts. I've spent my entire life fighting the likes of you.

Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.

The actions of a single person can change the course of the world and create history.

There have always been people like you, Nicholas Flamel. People who think they know what's best, who decide what people should see and read and listen to, who ultimately try to shape how the rest of the world thinks and acts. I've spent my entire life fighting against the likes of you.

Volgens mij zijn we een van de variabelen waarmee ze geen rekening hebben gehouden.' 'Variabel en niet in de hand te houden.' - Sophie en Josh, over Isis en Osiris