Quotes About Impact

Sometimes the best way to communicate something is to explain what happens in the absence of it.

What children hear at home soon flies abroad

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

Some truths hit harder than others.

It all comes down to people in the end. All the global policies and grand schemes. They all come down to what we do to people, whether we help or harm them.

We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself—you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there.

Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again.

Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.

For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.

I am not impressed with what people own. But I'm impressed with what they achieve. I'm proud to be a physician. Always strive to be the best in your field…. Don't chase money. If you are the best in your field, money will find you.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Quien salva una sola vida, salva al mundo entero.

Once a story is told, it cannot be called back. Once told, it is loose in the world.

Nascent residential schools might prove to be the answer to the "Indian Problem," but educating and assimilating children would take one or two generations, and delayed gratification is not a North American trait.

While the hardware of civilization - iron pots, blankets, guns - was welcomed by Native people, the software of Protestantism and Catholicism - original sin, universal damnation, atonement, and subligation - was not, and Europeans were perplexed, offended, and incensed that Native peoples had the temerity to take their goods and return their gods.

Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous."

All modern social, political, and sociological ills can be traced to social media.

We do not exist for ourselves...

Theories of consciousness have cultural consequences.

Das Problem war nur, dass zwar die Weißen vom Virus befallen wurden, aber andere Leute sterben mussten.

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child,cannot be true.