Quotes about Influence

To shape the soul of a young girl, all the nuns in the world are not equal to one mother.

True or false, what is said about people often has as much bearing on their lives and especially on their destinies as what they do.

To wipe out abuse is not enough; you have to change people's whole outlook. The mill is no longer standing, but the wind's still there, blowing away.

God was as visible in this affair as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool which he wills. He is not responsible to men.

The social edifice of the past rests on three columns,—the priest, the king, and the hangman.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.

Kitsch is the aesthetic ideal of all politicians and all political parties and movements. Those of us who live in a society where various political tendencies exist side by side and competing influences cancel or limit one another can manage more or less to escape the kitsch inquisition: the individual can preserve his individuality; the artist can create unusual works. But whenever a single political movement corners power, we find ourselves in the realm of totalitarian kitsch.

The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.

Her image of it came entirely from what she had heard. Or read. Or received unconsciously from distant ancestors. And yet it lived within her.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you