Quotes About Influence

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.   —

While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine—history will call us wives.

It is not always the majestic concerns of Imperial ministers which dictate the course of history, nor is it necessarily the pontifications of priests which move the hands of God.

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles—the CHOAM Company.

Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.

Ovo je promjenjiv svemir, a mi smo najneobi?nija promjena od svih. Mi treperenjem odgovaramo na mnoge utjecaje. Našim budu?nostima treba stalno obnavljanje podataka.

In all Things you must appear important. No minor decisions pass through your hands unless they are quiet acts called 'Favors' done for people whose loyalty can be earned.

Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't tell the future? Could it be that the oracle made the future?

The music of a civilization has far-reaching consequences on consciousness and, thus, influences the basic nature of a society. Music and its rhythms divert and compel the awareness, describing the limits within which a consciousness, thus fascinated, may operate. Control the music, then, and you own a powerful tool with which to shape the society. ?The Dosadi Analysis, BuSab Documents

Given the right lever you can move a planet.

A world is supported by four things…." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing…." She closed her fingers into a fist. "…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that

Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob.

Don't let a woman's fears cloud your mind.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

You understand? One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

The problem with leadership is that leaders are human beings. And when they make mistakes, their mistakes are amplified by the numbers who follow without question.

Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. This is the danger of entrenched bureaucracy to its subject population.

Teg boiled it down to an essence: If only one person followed such guiding principles, this was a better universe.

Control the coinage and the courts—let the rabble have the rest.

O poder costuma isolar aqueles que o detêm em demasia. Por fim, acabam perdendo o contato com a realidade... e tombam.

La influencia de la política en el seno de una religión ortodoxa es inevitable. La lucha por el poder impregna el adiestramiento, la educación y la disciplina de una comunidad ortodoxa. Debido a esa presión, los jefes de una comunidad así deben afrontar inevitablemente un claro dilema interior: sucumbir al más completo oportunismo como precio para mantener su poder o arriesgarse al autosacrificio en nombre de la ética ortodoxa.

Not at all, Lady Fenring said. She turned, looking up at the tiers around them. And the Baron noted the line of her neck- a truly lovely flowing of muscles- like a young boy's.