Quotes About Influence

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.

The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their lives to accomplish. They made a difference!

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

History is sympathetic to its authors.

This voting thing is actually beautiful. Not just necessary - it's a wonderful thing and it makes you powerful. And we've forgotten that in the most negative [president's] campaign in history.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.

History tends to change people who think they're changing it.

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

You can't kill history. You can't shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it's going to die, it has to die on its own

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

A lot of our perception of history is influenced by inaccurate movies.

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

History is the devil's scripture.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

Give the historians something to write about.

History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.