Quotes About Influence

Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone?

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy

The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

Your music has been a powerful vehicle for your philosophies.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

Be the change that you want to see

I lost my power in the world because I did not use it.

Philosophy studies the world, but the point is to change it.

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

I don't discuss basketball. I dictate basketball. I'm not interested in philosophy classes.

Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.

The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you making on business?

He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.

All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.

He does not seek power - yet people follow him.

Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

One person will eat meat and it will lower their attention field. Another person won't even be affected by it because they're not in the state of mind whereby they'll be affected by it.

Should philosophers be expected to change the world? Such an expectation seems to me extravagant. Marx himself didn't change the world: he reinterpreted it, then other people changed it.

Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.