Quotes About Influence

It is well known, that, in all questions submitted to the understanding, prejudice is destructive of sound judgment, and perverts all operations of the intellectual faculties: it is no less contrary to good taste; nor has it less influence to corrupt our sentiment of beauty. It belongs to good sense to check its influence in both cases.

Todas las opiniones y nociones de las cosas a las que hemos sido habituados desde nuestra infancia arraigan tan profundamente que es imposible para nosotros, mediante todo el poder de la razón y experiencia, desarraigarlas, y este hábito no sólo se acerca en su influencia, sino que a veces supera al que surge de la constante unión inseparable de las causas y efectos.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

For all their obvious differences, the pope and Mussolini were alike in many ways. Both could have no real friends, for friendship implied equality.

the Vatican's cooperation.

the pope, speaking in English

the moral leadership of the Papacy is conditioned by considerations of opportunism and expedience.

the Church acts immediately.

No one rules if no one obeys

If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control each side.

Don't work for your mind, make your mind work for you.

Si je veux que vous me donniez le pouvoir et que vous me supportiez lors d'une élection, est-ce que je dois vous dire ce que vous voulez entendre ou vous dire ce que vous ne voulez pas entendre ?

Vous prêtez de l'argent aux deux antagonistes afin de financer la guerre, et vous leur prêtez encore plus pour la reconstruction de leurs pays dévastés. Ils deviennent endettésface à vous (contrôle) et vous augmentez votre richesse (pouvoir).

The myth of choice is there to fool us into believing we are free.

It is important to appreciate, as we look at where present-day values and beliefs originated, that nothing is new. It is all inherited from, or influenced by, what has happened in the past.

Fear is a perception – False Emotion Appearing Real – and fear is the currency of control.

Real power around the world does not reside with governments any longer, but with private interests. Real power is secret power.

And you realized, once inside the Secret Service cordon, that the president of the United States was just a politician, surrounded by courtiers and glad-handers and people seeking favors. He was as prone to making stupid decisions as any other politician, maybe more so. The real secret about the White House was that it was so ordinary—mediocrity on steroids.

The child was born in the Arab world, and in that sense, Roger and Alice had gone into the land itself, been penetrated by it, bled into its veins (p. 349).

As Robespierre once said of Marat, 'The man was dangerous: he believed in what he said.' Hitler

this minority will be the one that makes history, because the majority will always follow where there's a tough minority to lead the way. In

What is new in your fight is the fact that it was initiated, fed, and sustained by students.

young Barack spent most of his time with his fit and youthful forty-five-year-old grandfather.