Quotes About Influence

The greatest spirits of the heathen world, such as Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Antonius, etc., owed all their greatness to the spirit of devotion.

The Mongols, as nomads, built little of permanence, yet the world's largest construction – the Ming Great Wall – was in some sense built for them, if posthumously. Like

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

If Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist wasn't addicted to the pain-killing drug his doctor prescribed, but instead it was just that the drug had 'established an interrelationship with the body, such that if the drug is removed precipitously, there is a reaction,' you needn't question that his decisions might have been influenced by his drug addiction.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

Vanity is often the unseen spur.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.

the greatest tyrants over women are women.

As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?

[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!

one small decision has the power to make a real difference for the economy

In Washington, truth is never told in daylight hours or across a desk

This is our country, too, and we can goddam well control it if we learn to use the tools. —HST, 1969

Tajna osvajanja žena leži u prora?unatom ignoriranju.

I should like someone to remember that there once lived a person named David Berger.

There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as 'enlightenment.