Quotes about Influence

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

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

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.

The desire we so often hear expressed today for "episcopal figures," "priestly men," "authoritative personalities" springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for the admiration of men, for the establishment of visible human authority, because the genuine authority of service appears to be so unimpressive.

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?

Leading Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan in the late nineteenth century and then, after Republicans shut it down, revived it in the early twentieth century.

If I can hold God's attention, I can hold the world's..

There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.

When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing them to control you.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.