The whole idea of trying to influence people is totally wrong. Then you may ask what it is I am trying to do. I assure you, I am not trying to influence you. I am pointing out certain obvious things, which perhaps you have not thought about before – and the rest is up to you. There is no good influence or bad influence when you are seeking what is true. To find out for oneself what is true, all influence must cease. There is no good conditioning or bad conditioning – there is only freedom from all conditioning. So the idea of trying to influence another for their own good seems to me utterly immature, completely false.

—Krishnamurti