Influence Quotes - Page 32

• Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business.

  Clara Barton

  Thinking, Long Ago, Principles

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• ...I believe it is woman's right to have a voice in all the laws and regulations by which she is to be governed; whether in Churchor State; and that the present arrangements of society, on these points, are a violation of human rights, a rank usurpation of power, a violent seizure and confiscation of what is sacredly and inalienably hers--and thus inflicting upon woman outrageous wrongs, working mischief incalculable in the social circle, and in its influence on the world producing only evil, and that continually.

  Angelina Grimke

  Believe, Rights, Law

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.191, Penguin

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• Whoever influences the child's life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child's future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Views, Giving

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• If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Change, Book, Long

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• Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Honesty, Power, People

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• Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.'

  Gretchen Rubin

  Connections, Outcomes, Superstitions

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• Except for those few Christians who hold that Christians should have nothing to do with government and hence cannot attempt to influence it, the rest - the great majority - have only themselves to blame if their government begins to undermine the institutions and values they cherish.

  Harold O. J. Brown

  Christian, Religious, Government

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• To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Christian, Religious, Teaching

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• Today religion is increasingly pushed aside by secularizing influences such as the university, the media, and politics. Rather than having a major voice in public life, religion has been relegated to the private and the personal.

  Paul Copan

  Christian, Religious, Media

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• We have battled in America since the century's turn to bring to nothing any and all Christian influences and we are succeeding. While we today seem to be kind to the Christian, remember we have yet to influence the 'Christian world' to our ends... You must work until 'religion' is synonymous with 'insanity'... It is only necessary to work incessantly upon the official, using personal defamations, wild lies, false evidences and constant propaganda to make him fight for you against the church or against any practitioner.

  Kenneth Goff

  Christian, Religious, Lying

  Lavrent Beria, Kenneth Goff “THE SOVIET ART OF BRAINWASHING: A synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics”, Lulu.com

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• The United States is at a turning point because of a decreasing influence of faith .

  Os Guinness

  Christian, Religious, United States

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• The days of the Cross are counted. We must deliver the German nation from the pernicious influence of Christianity.

  Erich Ludendorff

  Christian, Religious, Crosses

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• But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order.

  Jacob Neusner

  Christian, Religious, Order

  Jacob Neusner (1991). “The Twentieth Century Construction of "Judaism": Essays on the Religion of Torah in the History of Religion”, University of South Florida

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• Today the separation of church and state is America is used to silence the church... The way the concept is used today is totally reversed from the original intent... It is used today as a false political dictum in order to restrict the influence of Christian ideas... To have suggested the state separated from religion and religious influence would have amazed the Founding Fathers.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Religious, Father

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• The modern concept of separation is an argument for a total separation of religion from the state. The consequence of the acceptance of the doctrine leads to the removal of religion as an influence in civil government.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Religious, Acceptance

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• The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.

  Bruce L. Shelley

  Christian, Religious, Wall

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• It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country, seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence.

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Country, Religious

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• There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1870). “American Institutions”, p.388

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• One of the most singular facts about the unwritten history of this country is the consummate ability with which Southern influence, Southern ideas and Southern ideals, have from the very beginning even up to the present day, dictated to and domineered over the brain and sinew of this nation.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Country, Ideas, Southern

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.97, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Our most basic institution of family desperately needs help and support from the extended family and the public institutions that surround us. Brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents and cousins can make a powerful difference in the lives of children. Remember that the expression of love and encouragement from an extended family member will often provide the right influence and help a child at a critical time.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Encouragement, Cousin, Brother

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• Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Movement, Sometimes, Absence

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Life, Motivational, Goal

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• While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort.  No one leads well without paying the price of discipline.  As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Exercise, Discipline

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• Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Commitment, Empowering

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• The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct.... girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing.... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly.

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell

  Girl, Children, School

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