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“It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.”

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Author:Adam Weishaupt

“It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.”

“The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the state to enrich some persons at the expense of others. Eliminate that illegitimate power of giving differential economic benefits and you eliminate or drastically restrict the motive for wanting political influence.”

Giving Persons Ends States Use Political Interest Influence Economic Benefits Motive Expenses Political Influence

Book:Anarchy, state, and utopia

Source: Anarchy, state, and utopia

“We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.”

“They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.”

Ifs Ends Artist Interest Saws Influence Childhood Taste Approach Your Children

Author:Brett Ratner

“For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power....When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.”

“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.”

Source: THE SOVIET ART OF BRAINWASHING: A synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics

“To me there are two Hitlers: one who existed until the end of the French war; the other begins with the Russian campaign. In the beginning he was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people. The important thing to remember is that the first Hitler, the man who I knew until the end of the French war, had much charm and goodwill. He was always frank. The second Hitler, who existed from the beginning of the Russian campaign until his suicide, was always suspicious, easily upset, and tense. He was distrustful to an extreme degree.”

“God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated me, through the brothers and sisters I grew up with, the schools I went to, there was this influence upon me which was the faith, in the concrete. I accepted it, I questioned it, I grew up with it, and in the end, as a mature adult, I continue to accept it.”

Mean Ends School Parent Accepting Influence Brother Grew Grew Up Adults Accepted Educated Mature Concrete Brothers And Sisters Miraculous

Author:George Coyne

“I realized that there is something else that is influencing people to behave like that, and that's the taking of the souls away from God. If you get people to sin, they get pushed further away from God and eventually God doesn't really own the soul anymore. The Devil owns the soul and that's where the danger comes in. Because in the end, there's no do-overs.”

People Ifs Soul Ends Sin Influence Danger Devil I Realized Behave Influencing People

Author:Ralph Sarchie

“Historically the buffalo had more influence on man than all other Plains animals combined. It was life, food, raiment, and shelter to the Indians. The buffalo and the Plains Indians lived together, and together passed away. The year 1876 marks practically the end of both.”

Men Years Ends Together Animal Influence Mark Shelter Passed Away Buffalo

Book:The Great Plains

Source: The Great Plains

“Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.”

Knows Kind Ends Influence Eternal Deeds Good Deeds Kind Words

Book:Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness

Source: Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness

“In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.”

Believe Has Beens Important Ends I Believe Taken Influence Photograph Aesthetic

Author:Roger Ballen

“Few knew in 2000 that Bush was going to end up with neoconservatives all over the place. And once 9/11 happened, I think it's fair to say that eight or nine neocons have had an enormous influence. The whole solution to every problem was to go after Iraq. This had been a neoconservative mantra for ten years. There was no secret about it.”

Thinking Years Ends Whole Problem Secret Happened Influence Ten Solutions Fairs Iraq Eight Nine Enormous Mantras

Author:Seymour Hersh

“There were 16 people in the race, including a number of governors, and there's only one left. And I think that at the end we have to make sure that we have somebody that can go to that town, change that system, grow employment, change the whole way in which it works and ship power money and influence back to the states. So I'm optimistic about it.”

People Thinking Way Looks Ends States Whole Left Grows Numbers Race Influence Towns Including Ships Optimistic Employment Governors

Author:John Kasich

“There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of my favourite artists, and the American things are what I grew up on as well. In the end, for me, it's those foundations of the music business - those things that are a lot of the foundations of what music today is. You can hear a bit of all of those things that we talk about in almost all music today.”

Knows Wells Ends Today Artist Bits Influence Grew Grew Up Foundation Starting British Favourite Music Business

Author:Paul Weller

“In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Nobody that I know really likes the feeling of having no power and not being able to influence people. But most of us aren't too conscious of what we are trying to do and get that control and that power so people end up sort of playing all kinds of unconscious manipulative games or they're sort of half aware, they have an idea of a strategy or goal they want to use and they think about it. But then in the heat of the moment, it kind of all flies out the window.”