Quotes About Influence

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power.

All governments need to remain under suspicion in their time of power.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They re-create the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well. —LETO II, HIS VOICE, FROM DAR-ES-BALAT

What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

Celui qui gouverne doit apprendre à convaincre et non à obliger.

Tone of voice and attitude alone can subjugate another's will.

We know that one: 'Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.' Wrong, Dama. Something more subtle but far more pervasive: Power attracts the corruptible.

Los historiadores ejercen un gran poder, y algunos de ellos lo saben. Recrean el pasado, cambiándolo para que encaje con sus propias interpretaciones. De este modo, cambian también el futuro.

Power attracts the psychotics. Always. That's what we have to avoid within ourselves.

Povjesni?ari imaju veliku mo?, a neki od njih to i znaju. Oni ponovno stvaraju prošlost, mijenjaju?i je kako bi odgovarala njihovim vlastitim tuma?enjima. Pa tako mijenjaju i budu?nost.

Muad'dib rules everywhere, he said. Arrakis is not my destination, she insisted. Arrakis is the destination of everyone, he said.

you can't get rid of Shakespeare without abolishing the very notion of literature.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

That's a name for gangsters and politicians.

Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac

But why not? He deserved it. It took years to take control of this school—to oust the resisters, to implant the sympathizers, to blind the parents to what was happening to their children. It was no small task.

Without men to do your killing, the woman will have power over you!" "She doesn't know that!

We say that a given habit grows on us. Really it grows in us, becomes second nature.

Drugs will turn you into your parents.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

behind each breakaway movement is a breakaway demagogue who will set up his breakaway demagogue government.

Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.