Quotes About Influence

A person is not really gone until everyone who knew them is gone.

I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them.

found these things in Heuvelman's book, In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents, and I suppose some similar account might have given Pike the whole idea

It may be that Japanese culture is not ego-based like Western culture: argument has often a strong ego base. The most likely explanation is that Japanese culture was not influenced by those Greek thinking idioms which were refined and developed by medieval monks as a means of proving heretics to be wrong. (p36)

unchecked power corrupts.  

so intimate is the connexion between the throne and the altar, that the banner of the church has very seldom been seen on the side of the people.

Edward Gibbon

The Empire In The Age Of The Antoninies.

the younger Andronicus was speedily corrupted by his infant greatness

Posterity, who experienced the fatal effects of his maxims and example, justly considered him as the principal author of the decline of the Roman empire.

one by inflaming their passions, the other by extinguishing their reason

The Extent Of The Empire In The Age Of The Antonines—Part I.

The pathetic representations of Prudentius were less effectual than the generous boldness of Telemachus, an Asiatic monk, whose death was more useful to mankind than his life.

In the second century of the Christian Aera

the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth

Joseph. de Bell. Judaico, l. ii. c. 16. The oration of Agrippa, or rather of the historian, is a fine picture of the Roman empire.]

Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean: The world has grown grey from thy breath!

Anyway, for whatever interest is to be derived therefrom. Bacon, Balthus, and Magritte are my three favourite painters, along with Dubuffet, of the whole post-impressionist period, by which I mean that before them Bonnard, Vuillard, & Seurat are my favourite painters of that time.

To some people, The Beatles are just Paul McCartney's band before Wings.

What better way to destroy a civilization, society or a race than to set people into the wild oscillations which follow their turning over their judgment and decision-making faculties to a superhero?

Women are like parasitical plants, casting their wild tendrils from one tree to another, till, swollen into tough cordage, they strangle those they embrace, and luxuriate in their decay.

The Essence Woman is a striver, who in 1970 was now educated, worked in new careers, had discretionary income, had the ability to influence, and wanted information geared specifically to her and her needs in media that reflected her. Clarence Smith, cofounder, and advertising sales director

Don't rule your husband. But arrange the conditions in which he will make his choices.

We, the heirs of Saint Patrick, we who kept alive the Christian faith and the writings of ancient Rome when most of the world had sunk under the barbarians, we who gave the Saxons their education are to be taught a lesson in Christianity by the English?