Quotes About Influence

Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and no power is more absolute than parenthood.

power exercises over the civilian population.

Just as the only real antidote to the temptations of money is lavish generosity, so the only real antidote to the temptations of power is choosing to spend our power in the opposite of the way the world encourages us to spend it: not on getting closer to the sources of additional power or on securing our own round-the-clock sense of comfort and control, but spend it on getting closer to the relatively powerless.

power is nothing—worse than nothing—without love.

Here is what we need to discover about power: it is both better and worse than we could imagine.

It's not hard to figure out who has the power in any large gathering in our mediated culture: they are the ones with a microphone, their image projected larger than life above the crowd.

One of power's invisible perquisites is that others grant you deference without your having to ask for it.

The powerful have a hard time seeing their own power and its effects. We do not see when our exercise of power is cutting off life and possibility for others; we do not see the ways others are resisting or undermining our own power.

All real change starts with the number of people who can sit around a table in a single household

I actually believe the deepest form of power is creation, and that when power takes the form of coercion and violence, that is actually a diminishment and distortion of what it was meant to be.

It's the movies that have been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.

I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it. Andy Warhol

The only time I ever want to be something is outside a party so I can get in.

I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.

Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

The "American Dream" is grounded in the promise of the transcendence of social class boundaries, as in the opportunity to enable one's children to climb the social ladder through educational and financial achievement. The mythology of upward mobility encourages Americans (including many in the academy) to pathologize poverty and disregard the influence of privilege

Role models matter.

If a dish could make a woman strong enough to ignore the call of her heart, then the world would be ruled by woman. There would be no tears or shattered dreams.- Komathi, Alphabet Soup for Lover

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

If you didn't have a choice, you have to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let the world happen to you.

he is the drip, drip of water that carves a canyon right through the middle of me.