Quotes About Influence

Gli storici esercitano un grande potere, e alcuni di loro lo sanno. Essi creano il passato, cambiandolo per adeguarlo alle proprie interpretazioni. Così, cambiano anche il futuro.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us, do we?

Cada civilización depende de la calidad de los individuos que produce.

Un líder es una de las cosas que diferencia a una turba de un pueblo. Es alguien que mantiene la individualidad. Cuando hay poca individualidad, el pueblo se convierte en una turba.

He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob." His

Muad'Dib gave us a particular kind of knowledge about prophetic insight, about the behaviour which surrounds such insight and its influence upon events whcih are seen to be on line. (That is, events which are set to occur in a related system which the prophet reveals and interprets.) As has been noted elsewhere, such insight operates as a peculiar trap for the prophet himself. He can become the victim of what he knows — which is a relatively common human failing.

Spend energies on those who make you strong. Energy spent on weaklings drags you to doom.

Power attracts the psychotics. Always.

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way.

The man without emotions is the one to fear. But deep emotions…ah, now, those can be bent to your needs.

Con el punto de apoyo adecuado es posible hasta mover el mundo

Understand yourself, Piter. You want her because she was a Duke's woman, a symbol of his power—beautiful, useful, exquisitely trained for her role.

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is an agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

She said a ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. She said he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men.

De?in controlul unui lucru numai acei ce-l pot distruge.

bureaucracies always become voracious aristocracies after they attain commanding power.

The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training." "It

Many histories are largely worthless because prejudiced, written to please one powerful group or another.

Your Fish Speakers aren't an army, they're a police force." "By my name, I assure you that's not so. Police are inevitably corrupted.

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. —Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)

You can't stop a mental epidemic.

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.

Have they taught you about democracy?" "Yes, sir. That's where you vote for—" "That's where you distrust anyone with power over you!

Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality . . . and fall.