Influence Quotes

Influence is everything, and guilt or innocence merely an academic question.

to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral—immoral from the scientific point of view.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Men are the products of their environment.

... without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love of strange affinity?