Quotes About Influence

Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.

Te parece correcto —le pregunta— hacer algo solo porque todo el mundo lo hace?

Men cluster to me like moths around a flame, and if their wings burn, I know I'm not to blame.

How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses?" "Then a lot of people will be early. Or late.

That little rock you're so curious about may have seen Alaric sack Rome; it may have glittered in the eyes of Pharaohs. Scythian queens might have danced all night wearing it. Wars might have been fought over it.

It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio. —Joseph Goebbels

There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing.

can send a black thread twisting through his mood for days

A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye—the body can never be pure. But this is what the

There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater think.

A portrait of the führer glowers over every classroom.

Sabe a maior lição da história? A história é aquilo que os vitoriosos determinam. Eis a lição. Seja qual for o vencedor, ele é quem decide a história.

É certo — pergunta Jutta — fazer algo apenas porque todas as outras pessoas estão fazendo?

Sabes cuál es la lección más importante d ela historia? Que solo la escriben los vencedores. Esa es la lección. El que decide el rumbo de la historia es el que gana.

Is it right," Jutta says, "to do something only because everyone else is doing it?

How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses?

A portrait of the führer glowers over every classroom. Learning happens on backless benches, at wooden tables grooved by the boredom of countless boys before them—squires, monks, conscripts, cadets.

Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest.

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You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name a person or nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-

Both of them lived in the grips of forces they had no control over--the November wind, the revolutions of the earth.

he wondered if such things were born into people. If perhaps we cannot alter who we are—if the place we come from dictates the place we will end up.