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“I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.”

Thinking Knows Doe Made Book Courses Individual Social Process Millions Influence Economic Mass Historical Effectiveness

Book:Light Up the Cave

Source: Light Up the Cave

“If two stones were placed... near each other, and beyond the sphere of influence of a third cognate body, these stones, like two magnetic needles, would come together in the intermediate point, each approaching the other by a space proportional to the comparative mass of the other.”

Ifs Two Body Together Space Influence Mass Stones Thirds Spheres Needles Magnetic Sphere Of Influence

Author:Johannes Kepler

“The most powerful influence exercised by the Arabs on general natural physics was that directed to the advances of chemistry ; a science for which this race created a new era.(...) Besides making laudatory mention of that which we owe to the natural science of the Arabs in both the terrestrial and celestial spheres, we must likewise allude to their contributions in separate paths of intellectual development to the general mass of mathematical science.”

“The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.”

Men Moments Influence Mass Propaganda

Author:Jacques Ellul

“People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.”

People Different Young Levels Influence Media Emotional Mass Passing Passings Performers Overwhelming Eccentric Mass Media Passing Through

Author:Bob Dylan

“I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.”

Way Believe Used I Believe Influence Mass Hip Hop Hips Hops

Author:Cee Lo Green

“The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love, free divorce, the vicious indulgences consequent on unregulated civilization, the worldliness which tempts men and women to avoid large families, often by sinful methods, thus making the ignorant masses the chief supply of the future ruling majorities; and most powerful of all, the feeble constitution and poor health of women, causing them to dread maternity as--what it is fast becoming--an accumulation of mental and bodily tortures.”

Source: Woman Suffrage and Woman's Profession

“One Mongolian leader became a very, very brutal dictator and eventually became a murderer. Previously, he was a monk, and then he became a revolutionary. Under the influence of his new ideology, he actually killed his own teacher. Pol Pot's family background was Buddhist. Whether he himself was a Buddhist at a young age, I don't know. Even Chairman Mao's family background was Buddhist. So one day, if the Dalai Lama becomes a mass murderer, he will become the most deadly of mass murderers.”

“The revolution in Nicaragua was the first of its kind to be accomplished with the mass support of Christians, a fact that cannot fail to influence the further development of revolutionary movements in the whole of Latin America, whose inhabitants are predominantly Christian.”

Firsts Kind Whole Facts Christian America Support Failing Influence Movement Revolution Development Mass Revolutionary Accomplished Latin Latin America Nicaragua

Author:Ernesto Cardenal

“The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious of them must, therefore, be separated from the mass, and placed by themselves in a senate; this is, to all honest and useful intents, an ostracism.”

People Wells Able House Born Simple Rich Too Much Influence Honest Honesty Mass Simplicity Acquire Senate Representatives House Of Representatives Ostracism

Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

“The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet.”

People Kind Culture Next Influence Rocks Events Planets Huge Majors Mass Exciting Crowds Decades Spots Theatrical Mass Culture

Author:Jim Morrison

“The influence over government must be shared among all the people. If every individual which composes their mass participates of the ultimate authority, the government will be safe, because the corrupting of the whole mass will exceed any private resources of wealth, and public ones cannot be provided but by levies on the people. In this case every man would have to pay his own price.”

People Ifs Men Whole Government Individual Wealth Pay Cases Influence Safe Authority Mass Resources Ultimate Every Man Exceed

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are given to the great democratic mass, because they have political power, to corrupt them.”

Political Used Order Given Influence Mass England Democratic Used To Be Political Power Pension Political Influence

Book:What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

Source: What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“When I was looking at the Russian Constructivists, these agitprop artists actually painted on trains. It was a heavy influence. They were bringing art to the people, to the masses, and breaking it out of the clubbiness of the art world, which is a monolith.”

People World Art Artist Influence Mass Train Heavy Art World

Author:Jeffrey Deitch

“In our decrees, it is definitely proclaimed that religion is a question for the private individual; but whilst opportunists tended to see in these words the meaning that the state would adopt the policy of folded arms, the Marxian revolutionary recognizes the duty of the state to lead a most resolute struggle against religion by means of ideological influences on the proletarian masses.”

Mean States Individual Struggle Influence Policy Duty Arms Mass Jew Revolutionary Ideological Decree Resolute Opportunist Against Religion

Author:Leon V. DePoncins