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“A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts with his deepest convictions. Then, whatever the situation he may be in, he always knows what he must say and do. He may fall, but he cannot bring shame upon himself or his cause. If we seek the liberation of the people by means of a lie, we will surely grow confused, go astray, and loose sight of our objective, and if we have any influence at all on the people we will lead them astray as well - in other words, we will be acting in the spirit of reaction and to its benefit.”

People Ifs Knows Wells May Mean Persons Spirit Lying Fall Speak Strong Grows Causes Acting Situation Influence Benefits Sight Shame Conviction Reactions Objectives Liberation Confused

Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.”

Men Mind School Lying Education Power Teacher Influence Teaching Objectives Prophet Stripes False Prophets

Author:Ron Dart

“The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.”

Soul Facts Lying Attitude Forever Influence Honesty Spring Simplicity Noble Confession Swept Away Purifying

Book:Romola

Source: Romola

“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 deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.”

Has Beens Lying Music Influence Moved Deny Ignorant Our Thoughts Deliberate Listening To Music

Author:Dessa Darling

“There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.”

People Bigs Lying Influence Willing Majors

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still?”

Ifs Should Made Stills Lying Influence Creation All Things Difficulty Allowing

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.”

Lying Influence Areas Hopeless Deep Thought No Hope

Author:Bill Johnson

“The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.”

Doe Hands Lying Leader Happened Influence Information Theory Importance Reasoning Peculiar Revolt Second Hand

Book:Aims of Education

Source: Aims of Education

“There is a group of people who know very well where the weapons of automatic influence lie and employ them regularly and expertly to get what they want. They go from social encounter to social encounter requesting others to comply with their wishes; their frequency of success is dazzling.”

People Knows Want Wells Lying Wish Social Groups Influence Weapons Encounters Frequency Dazzling

Author:Robert Cialdini

“The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it is a creation, but above all in the fact that it is one of the most effective means of shaping our ideas and influencing our behavior.”

Mean Ideas Facts Reality Eye Lying Influence Creation Behavior Photography Importance Permit Lenses Distortion

Author:Gisele Freund

“That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like the idea of working with synthesizers but now I think they're fun, there are no restrictions. Not that I understand how they work.”

People Thinking Firsts Ideas Lying Fun Water Influence Restriction Muddy Turner Synthesizers

Author:Vince Clarke

“In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.”

People Trying Lying Purpose Loses Influence Please Spheres Sphere Of Influence

Author:Epictetus