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“Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.”

People Knows Children Heaven Grows Growing Up Influence Dangerous Get Away Influencing People Illegitimate Child

Author:Elizabeth Bibesco

“It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.”

“I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.”

Thinking Young Influence Dangerous Treated Cynicism Discouragement Young Writers

Author:Jane Gardam

“Fancy has an extensive influence in morals. Some of the most powerful and dangerous feelings in nature, as those of ambition and envy, derive their principal nourishment from a cause apparently so trivial. Its effect on the common affairs of life is greater than might be supposed. Naked reality would scarcely keep the world in motion.”

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.”

People Knows Lasts Talking Influence Dangerous Fields Ignorance Educated Suspects

Book:Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays

Source: Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays

“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.”

Giving Christian Religious Results Influence Teaching Dangerous Importance Tendencies Curious Paganism

Author:Nicholas Murray Butler

“We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.”

Should Ideas Soul Left Speak Black Taken Influence Dangerous Revolution Sake Obvious Favors Scales Smallest Symptoms Objections Respectability Placid

Book:Art & ardor: essays

Source: Art & ardor: essays

“The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.”

Ifs World Would Be Loses Influence Dangerous Policy Possibility Active Broke Dangerous Places Unilateralism

Author:Denis Healey

“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.”

Knows Mind Humans Art Important Might Beautiful Spirit Desire Three Stuff Teacher Influence Teaching Dangerous Wide Mediums Burning Horizon Human Mind Great Teacher Sprung Burning Desire

Author:John Steinbeck

“I've made a contribution to my time and my generation through being myself, not through what I shared with the Rolling Stones. It's very bad for me and very dangerous to see myself as someone who had an influence on this song or that song. It immediately puts me in the position where my worth is dependent on how much of my soul I shared with Mick Jagger, and it's just not valid. You can use the gossip you've heard. You're not getting it from me.”

Made Soul Use Song Generations Heard Influence Dangerous Position Stones My Soul My Time Contribution Dependent Gossip Rolling My Generation Rolling Stones Being Myself Jagger

Author:Marianne Faithfull