Quotes About Influence

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

The state or conditions into which you lead your wife will be the state or conditions in which you find yourself. You cannot lead your wife into happiness and not get there yourself.

Martin Luther was the Reformation's indispensable firestarter. Would there have been a Reformation if young Martin had followed his father's wishes and become a lawyer? Who knows, but the Reformation as it actually happened is unimaginable without him.

We are what they've made us, aren't we?

behind every known hero there is an unknown hero who is called a teacher" -Quotes Teller( Aleejah Haider)

Si haces aquello, te destruirás; Si te entregas a tal actividad, terminarás como un pordiosero; Si tienes relaciones sexuales antes del matrimonio, te convertirás en una puta». Como el cerebro tiende a cumplir las predicciones, éstas, transformadas por el Inconsciente en órdenes, actúan sobre la vida del individuo como maldiciones que exigen ser realizadas.

What is it with boys? How do they slide into fucked-upness so quickly, with such natural ease?

Everything after Star Wars is shit.

They say, as the gardener, so the garden.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

no puede explicarse cuán grande es la autoridad de un erudito de profesión, cuando quiere demostrar a los demás las cosas de las que ya están persuadidos.

Ma cos'è la storia senza la politica? Una guida che cammina, cammina, con nessuno dietro che impari la strada, e per conseguenza butta via i suoi passi; come la politica senza la storia è uno che cammina senza guida.

Ma cos'è mai la storia, diceva spesso don Ferrante, senza la politica? Una guida che cammina, cammina, con nessuno dietro che impari la strada, e per conseguenza butta via i suoi passi; come la politica senza la storia è uno che cammina senza guida.

Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.

Your family has a lot of very powerful women,

Words have power. You be careful.

A real ninja doesn't leave things in the hands of fate and destiny. They create their own destiny.

In a democracy, a politician who didn't know where he stood might lose an election. In Russia, he'd lose everything.

Everything depends which side of the shotgun you're on,

they even put up bad reviews on TripAdvisor to scare away the tourists.

Their point of departure is different and their paths diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world. (on Russia and America)

Most members of the political elites of north-east Africa have come to resemble gangsters rather than civic political leaders.