Quotes About Influence

Few men have been admired by their own households.

I quote others only to better express myself.

It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it, being filled and arrested by this strong light.

We, the people of Thiaoouba, are assigned to assist, guide and sometimes punish the inhabitants of planets under our guardianship.

La Géorgie et l'Arménie, sur lesquelles la Russie tente de mettre la main en distribuant à ceux qui en font la demande des passeports de la Fédération de Russie, multipliant ainsi le nombre de citoyens russes dans ces pays

Discipline "makes" individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise.

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker -judge.

In that time he had managed to write books that made me consider him a friend more than a hundred years later.

What's amazing about Bayrou, what makes him irreplaceable," Tanneur enthused, "is that he's an utter moron.

Ça faisait partie des consignes officielles, de commencer par infantiliser les proches?

Curiosamente, la prensa, aunque estaba perdiendo la cuasi totalidad de sus lectores, había incrementado en estos últimos años su poder nocivo, ahora podía arruinar vidas, y no se privaba de hacerlo, sobre todo en período electoral, incluso el recurso de un procedimiento judicial se había vuelto inútil, una simple sospecha bastaba para destruir a alguien

during a press conference he declared (to general bafflement) that he was profoundly influenced by distributism. He had actually said so before, several times, on the campaign trail, but since journalists have a natural tendency to ignore what they don't understand, no one had paid attention and he'd let it drop. Now

If you control the children, you control the future.

nunca, en ningún momento de la historia humana, había existido una religión que ganara influencia sobre las masas dirigiéndose únicamente a la razón.

like Baudelaire-Rimbaud-Mallarmé, then Breton). Their

Parfois on se fait instrumentaliser, comme moi je me fait instrumentaliser aussi, tout le monde se fait instrumentaliser. Evidemment, on dit regardez comme la presse est libre - elle invite des individus qui critiquent la presse donc ça veut bien dire qu'on est libre, mais je suis pas dupe du fait que non, je suis la caution qui permet à la presse de dire qu'elle est libre alors qu'elle ne l'est pas. LCI M.Onfray 10/05/17 11m40

Depuis des années, le grand formateur des consciences n'est plus l'école, elle aussi vendue au marché et aux idéologues, mais l'écran – la télévision, le net, le tweet.

L'image est douée d'une force mauvaise. Elle n'est pas la servante dévouée et fidèle que tu voudrais. Elle prend toutes les apparences d'une servante, oui, mais en vérité elle est sournoise, menteuse et impérieuse. Elle aspire de toute sa mauvaiseté à te reduire en esclavage.

I have always imposed my wishes on the cameraman. Moreover, I have always picked them at the outset of their careers and, to a certain extent, have formed them myself.

The ripple effect. You throw a pebble into the water and it creates ripples. Your action was to throw the pebble—the representation of your choice. That's all that you can control. But not the ripples—those are the consequences of your choice. And that you cannot control.

That's the thing with the real world. It's never going to be perfect, and I don't have control over that. But I can control how I behave in it, and how I let things affect me. I can choose to be perfect in my own way without having to be perfect in everyone else's eyes. Relying on other people to reflect my worth back to me is a fool's errand.

Popularity can be a real headache.

Children raised by the Double-Minded parent will often grow up having codependent tendencies, seeking acceptance from others, being unrealistic in their view of "self," and feeling insecure. They are confused about what it means to follow Christ, and might avoid their parents in adulthood.

Had I first come to the AUUCC when Tom was the senior minister, I might have cathected with him as profoundly as I had with Sparlo—and there were many people at the AUUCC who had; they adored Tom and came to church to hear him, and might never attach as ardently to any other minister. Like baby ducks, we were imprinted by the one we knew first.