A traditional corporate executive may have power within the company, but a woke CEO can use the corporate bully pulpit to exert influence over society.
The truth comes to rule, not through violence, but rather through its own power; [this is the central theme of John's Gospel:] When brought before Pilate, Jesus professes that He Himself is The Truth and the witness to the truth. He does not defend the truth with legions but rather makes it visible through His Passion and thereby also implements it.
People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.
For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible.
Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.
[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.
The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.
There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.
I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.
I see myself as real. Like I mean if I was the President I would have a responsibility, because people put me there. Nobody put me here. They just buy my records. They wouldn't buy my records if my records wasn't good. I'm being who i am in the record.
Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.
And that is how I employ my time in cinema, saying things about people who I think have touched us in terms of our value judgement and by example.
"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral — immoral from the scientific point of view." "Why?" "Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."
You will never be able to measure your influence for good.
The simple, daily influences of prayer, persuasion, and promoting of godly values are the most powerful tools a mother can use to unleash the potential of her children.
Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.
The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same degree that the Commandments influence our daily lives.
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not.
While might certainly does not make right, neither does right by itself make might.
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.
A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.
