Quotes About Influence

The factor that made him so powerful was also his greatest liability.

Charisma often flows from total self-confidence.

The history of China, like the history of any great culture, was written at the expense of other stories that have remained silent.

Akhenaten's kingship provides an unintended caricature of all modern leaders who indulge in the trappings of charismatic display.

News Corp. used the same footage to sell patriotism in America and in China, and in both places the people bought it.

Satan loves to name you, because names catch people, control people, and shape people. This world love[s] to name us. We're susceptible to names because [we believe] we're orphaned and widowed--we're so desperate, we believe them. But the one we let name us is our idol...our god our father and groom.

By...handing children the fruit of the tree of knowledge unmediated by adult wisdom, we have abandoned our young to powers and influences which we cannot control, and whose strength we do not know. To leave a child unsupervised in front of a television set is no less dangerous than giving it neat gin, or putting it within reach of narcotics.

Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?

Those who write where many read, and speak where many listen, had best be careful what they say. Someone is bound to take them seriously, and it really is no good pretending that you didn't know this.

To some, the temporal triumph of the Christian community in the world is a sign of God's favor and the essential righteousness of the Christian position. The irony of the matter, though, is that whenever the Christian community gains worldly power, it nearly always looses its capacity to be the critic of the power and influence it so readily brokers.

than not, that we read scripture not only in the light of our own culture but as a means of defining and defending that very culture over and against which scripture by its very nature is meant to stand. In other words, scripture is invariably used to support the status

We can all push the lever that moves the world, it is inside us, we just have to learn how to recognise it, how to use it, that is all we have to do.

If you ever thought you were too small to make a difference, you've never shared a bed with a mosquito.

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

Los seres humanos nunca son libres de otras fuerzas que condicionan sus vidas. El problema de la libertad no es la elección entre tener un dueño o no tenerlo; es el problema de quién es ese dueño.

Media are epistemologies. Every medium implies a particular way of thinking about things, influences to great extent what things we will think about, and how we will think about them.

When Pharaohís officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.

Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.

And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.

Then Balak sent other princes, more numerous and more distinguished than the first messengers.

be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”

So the LORD was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land.

For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,