Quotes About Influence

When you learn to love yourself, you teach those around to love themselves. And that will be what changes our world.

People tell me not to cook, drive, or touch anything for the sake of world peace.

More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

I like to think that someone will trace how the deepest thinking of India made its way to Greece and from there to the philosophy of our times

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.

My mind was formed by studying philosophy, Plato and that sort of thing.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.