Quotes About Influence

I think Angelina Jolie has done amazing, amazing things, and the international adoption rate just since her has skyrocketed. It's unbelievable.

A high school teacher once told me that identity is half what we tell ourselves and half what we tell other people about ourselves. But the missing piece he didn't mention—the piece that holds so much weight, especially in the minds of young women and girls—is the stories that other people tell us about ourselves. Those narratives become the ones we shape ourselves into. They're who we are, even if so much of it is a performance. This

A high school teacher once told me that identity is half what we tell ourselves and half what we tell other people about ourselves. But the missing piece he didn't mention—the piece that holds so much weight, especially in the minds of young women and girls—is the stories that other people tell us about ourselves.

A high school teacher once told me that identity is half what we tell ourselves and half what we tell other people about ourselves. But the missing piece he didn't mention—the piece that holds so much weight, especially in the minds of young women and girls—is the stories that other people tell us about ourselves. Those narratives become the ones we shape ourselves into. They're who we are, even if so much of it is a performance.

You can not make someone love you. You can not be thin enough or white enough or famous enough. The choice is entirely the other person's. Then again, you might try hypnosis.

The reason men rule is because women let them.

Being good does make a difference. You will not receive praise or payment for it, and other people will mistake your goodness for weakness, but it resonates among people you won't even meet.

It's not words that fail, it's the people who wield them. We have no power over life and death, we are subject to pain and disease and misery, but we command words. When you think about it, words are all we really have.

I'm sorry, but nothing 'just happens'. Stuff happens because either we make it happen or we let it.

Force is camouflaged by consents; the consent is brought about the methods of mass suggestion.

El pensamiento crítico es la única arma y la única defensa que tiene el ser humano frente a los peligros de la vida. Porque si yo no pienso críticamente, estaré sujeto a todas las influencias, a todas las sugerencias, a todos los errores y a todas las mentiras que se difunden, y con lo que me han adoctrinado desde pequeño. (...)

El maestro aprende de sus alumnos, el auditorio estimula al actor, el paciente cura a su psicoanalista -siempre y cuando no se tratan como objeto sino que están relacionados entre sí en forma productiva-.

The socioeconomic structure of a society molds the social character of its members so that they wish to do what they have to do. Simultaneously, the social character influences the socioeconomic structure of society, acting either as cement to give further stability to the social structure or, under special circumstances, as dynamite that tends to break up the social structure.

the vast majority of people have a feeling that there is almost nothing in which they can really, concretely and not abstractly influence and participate in the affairs of society.

Even a person of mediocre intelligence and ability can easily run a state once he or she is in the seat of power.

La maggior parte della gente non si rende nemmeno conto del proprio bisogno di conformismo. Vive nell'illusione di seguire le proprie idee ed inclinazioni, di essere individualista, di aver raggiunto da sé le proprie convinzioni; e si dà il fatto che le sue idee siano le stesse della maggioranza.

The idea of the responsible and well informed citizen who participates in the important decisions of the community is the central concept of democracy. But due to the quantitative increase in population and to the influence of methods of mass suggestion, the substance of democracy is weakening.

The teacher is taught by his students, the actor is stimulated by his audience, the psychoanalyst is cured by his patient—provided they do not treat each other as objects, but are related to each other genuinely and productively.

FaÅŸizm ve benzeri hareketler (ki, bunlar?n isimlerini onlar ortaya ç?k?p geliÅŸtikten sonra koyar?z ) ancak, hem ferdi ve hem de toplumsal hayat? etkileyen kararlar? verme noktas?nda yayg?n bir pasifliÄŸin olduÄŸu ve insanlar?n kat?l?mc? olmad??? toplumlarda yeÅŸerirler. (Hayat? Sevmek)

Ä°deoloji, doÄŸas? gereÄŸi etkin düÅŸünceye de, etkin duyguya da çekici gelmez. Ä°nsan? ya heyecanland?ran ya da uyutan hap gibidir. Hitler, Mein Kampfda (Kavgam'da) halk? toplay?p galeyana getirmek için en elveriÅŸli zaman?n, insanlar?n yorgun ve etkilenmeye aç?k olduÄŸu akÅŸam saatleri olduÄŸunu söylerken bu noktay? aç?kça gördüÄŸünü belirtiyordu.

Die bequemste öffentliche Meinung ist noch immer die öffentliche Meinungslosigkeit.

Dieser Theaterkritiker konnte die selbstverständlichsten und unstreitigsten Dinge äußern, sobald er es war, der sie behauptete, wirkten sie unglaubwürdig und reizten zum Widerspruch.

Machthunger und Geldgier sind Geschwister, aber mit mir sind sie nicht verwandt

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.