Quotes About Influence

Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

No matter what Mike Krzyzewski is making at Duke, it is not enough. He's underpaid! He is absolutely worth every penny he is getting. He is like a CEO of a major corporation when you think about his value to Duke University.

What bothered Easy Company's officers, me included, was not Sobel's emphasis on strict discipline, but his desire to lead by fear rather than example.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity.

There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.

It is essential for the image of the Leader that the group does not see the face of the one who goes before, but sees him only from behind as the figure stepping out ahead. His humanity is veiled in his Leader's form.

What will really matter is whether those in power expect more from people's folly than from their wisdom and independence of mind.

By the way, do you notice that uneducated people find it very difficult to decide things objectively, and that they allow some more or less fortuitous minor circumstance to turn the scales?

One feels in fact, when talking to him, that one is dealing, not with the man himself, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like, which have taken hold of him. He is under a spell, he is blinded, his very nature is being misused and exploited. Having thus become a passive instrument, the fool will be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.

Frequenting evil friends is bound to make your own behavior evil; People of Tingri, abandon any friendships that are negative. – Padampa Sangye

When asked about the extent to which the British decision to quit India was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi's 1942 movement, Attlee's lips widened in smile of disdain and he uttered, slowly, "Minimal."5

In sharing how God is changing our lives, we find the lives of others changed as well.

Those who wish to stand tallest must kneel lowest.

Our reactions reflect our repentance. Our practices reveal our priorities. Changed lives change lives.

God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world.

How you live today has the potential to impact all eternity.

Change the world today. Start with the next person you meet.