Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof – of which history offers so many examples – that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science.
I had been fascinated with Islam since college – particularly how it could inspire such fervor in our modern age and move a significant number of its followers to horrific acts of violence. That invisible hand moved me to study more and more about Islam.
Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to understand what had happened after he was arrested and killed. They knew Judas had handed him over to the people who arrested him.
Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.
My deepest challenge has been an internal one. It’s allowing success to take over by focusing on how many Twitter followers I have or what people are saying about me online, or just feeling like no matter how much success I get, it’s not enough.
I got a lot of fans, like core fans, that love me. I ain’t one of the dudes that sell five or 10 million brackets, but my followers are stern. They’re there. My fans – Jadakiss fans, LOX fans, D-Block fans – they loyal.
Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.
I had no idea at all how to model, but people would start to follow me. So, I would go to these start-up companies and say, ‘I have all these followers… how can we work together?’
You do not need millions of followers to know and to feel that you have a platform. I feel like everyone should realize that they have a platform regardless of how big their audience is.
It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means – its spirit and message.
Trends die. That’s the natural thing about a trend. It’s natural for people to be followers and be sheep and go with a trend.
Always, with any sort of politics, which is why we haven’t got any, you get extremists, and once you get extremists, you get people doing great things and terrible things… for every following of some sort, you get followers who distort things.
When you have a lot of followers, you get the good and bad. So I had a career out of it. But unfortunately, I had people hating on me every single day.
For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It’s kabuki theater, mostly.
I’ve never had a problem with Jesus. In fact, I’m pretty sure he’s just the kind of guy you’d always want to have around. But I have had a big problem with his agents, publicists, and managers. They’ve abused his message for power and converted moldable, excited people into bullied believers and followers.
At the very least, Donald Trump and his most rabid followers have been objective allies of the white supremacist movement, even if they thought they weren’t.
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
Donald Trump, like many cult leaders, understands the power his words will have over the minds and actions of his followers… but few cult leaders have a pet media infrastructure.
Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
You can’t have it all one way – be on the telly and the radio and make lots of money – and not offer anything to your followers when they need you.
Michael Savage turns on a microphone and broadcasts his opinions to faithful followers who enjoy listening to his views on politics, social issues, and anything else that this colorful, provocative, entertaining guy comes up with. It doesn’t matter which of his views I agree or disagree with.
Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ’s followers seem to disagree.
I have been wanting to join the digital world for some time now and engage with T-Series followers. What better than having a social media account where I can share, contribute and stay in touch with the world personally.
All of the awards, applause, Twitter followers, shoes, it will all go away eventually. But if I can leave the world slightly more hopeful, inspired, and more healed than when I arrived, I did my job.
It always surprises me how much my followers appreciate how candid my photos are – they may not have a particularly unique subject, but it’s more about the light you shed on the subject than the subject itself.
It’s like, ‘How can I reverse engineer what it takes to gain followers on a platform?’ And I’m curious about how it works. And I’m the same way with people. I’m curious about what makes them tick.
