Quotes About Influence

Money can't buy everything, but the personal magnetism that enables a man to make lots of money can, indeed, obtain most things.

Thought can be lofty without being elegant, but to the extent it lacks elegance it will have less effect on others. Force without finesse is mere mass.

Between an American millionaire, a Caesar or Napoleon, or Lenin and the Socialist boss of a village there is no qualitative difference, only quantitative.

Minha pátria é a língua portuguesa

It offends me that a man can master the Devil, but not the Portuguese language.

Todo o homem de hoje, em quem a estatura moral e o relevo intelectual não sejam de pigmeu ou de charro, ama, quando ama, com o amor romântico. O amor romântico é um produto extremo de séculos sobre séculos de influência cristã

The downfall of aristocratic influence has created an atmosphere of brutality and indifference towards the arts, such that a refined sensibility has nowhere to take refuge.

Il Destino è come una persona che smette di importunarci quando si accorge che non diamo importanza a ciò che fa.

Alcuni amministrano il mondo, altri sono il mondo.

Government is based on two things: restraint and deceit.

Precisar de dominar os outros é precisar dos outros. O chefe é um dependente

Civilizations appear only to exist in order to produce art and literature, for what speaks of them, what remains of them, are words.

Necesitar el dominio sobre los demás es necesitar de los demás. El jefe es un subalterno.

To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.

we're shadows of gestures performed by someone else, embodied effects, consequences that feel.

The truth is that nothing changes anything and what we say or do only brushes the tops of the mountains in whose valleys all things sleep.

Necesitar el dominio sobre los demás es necesitar de los demás.

It's enough for me to want something for that thing to die. My destiny, however, is not powerful enough to prove deadly to just anything. It has the unfortunate disadvantage of being deadly only to those things I want.

La verdad es que las cosas que tenemos nos tienen ellas también a nosotros en contrapartida: lo que poseemos nos posee.

If you're not happy, you can't transfer any happiness to anyone else.

la mafia […] mostra, allo stato puro, la natura dei rapporti sociali

Today you cannot talk about a United Nations system;… what actually exists is a domination system over nearly all countries in the world by a small group of powers under the aegis of the United States, determining all issues.

I view Che, furthermore, as a moral giant who grows day by day, whose image, whose strength, whose influence has multiplied throughout the world. How could he fit below a tombstone? How could he fit in this plaza? How could he fit solely in our beloved but small island? Only the world he dreamed of, which he lived and fought for, is big enough for him.

I discovered that everything you do is in response to a request or a suggestion made to you by some other party either inside you or outside. Some of these suggestions are good and praiseworthy and some of them are undoubtedly delightful. But the majority of them are definitely bad and are pretty considerable sins as sins go.