Quotes About Influence

Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even if she liked it she had to pretend she didn't. Then she was supposed to like it. To make her do something she didn't like and then make her like it, that was greater power. The greatest power of all is when she doesn't really like it but she's supposed to like it, so she has to pretend.

You should never let your picture be in a magazine or newspaper if you can help it, as you never know what ends your face may be made to serve, by others, once it has got out of your control.

Do you think anyone will believe it?" Aunt Elizabeth asked. "They will believe whatever is in the best interests of Ardua Hall," I said firmly. "Which is the same as their own best interests.

The Aunts had their methods, and their informants: no walls were solid for them, no doors locked.

They were concentrating first on the others. They got them more or less under control before they started in on everybody else.

people believed, then, that Culture could make you better – a better person. They believed it could uplift you, or the women believed it. They hadn't yet seen Hitler at the opera house.

The protector was her - the greater power was her - the universe that took an interest was her as well - always her.

You can't lead if no one will follow.

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

I'm bad at picking heroes.

Any forced change of leadership is always followed by a move to crush the opposition. The opposition is led by the educated, so the educated are the first to be eliminated.

Why were the bad people doing that? Because of Money. Money was invisible, like Fuck. They thought that Money was their helper; they thought he was a better helper than Fuck. But they were wrong about that. Money was not their helper. Money goes away just when you need it. But Fuck is very loyal.

Everything that went on in your life was thought to be due to some positive or negative power emanating from inside your head.

the best and most cost-effective way to control women for reproductive and other purposes was through women themselves.

Never underestimate the value of superior hair as a literary influence.

But whose fault was it? Aunt Helena says, holding up one plump finger. Her fault, her fault, her fault, we chant in unison. Who led them on? Aunt Helena beams, pleased with us. She did. She did. She did.

Some people like to throw objects, such as glasses of water or rocks, but nail painting is more positive. If more world leaders would take it up there would be less overall suffering, in her opinion.

I saw you as another god.

It would make me feel that I have power. But such a feeling would be an illusion, and too risky.

Of course Crake wasn't Crake yet, at that time: his name was Glenn. Why did it have two n's instead of the usual spelling? "My dad liked music," was Crake's explanation, once Jimmy got around to asking him about it, which had taken a while. "He named me after a dead pianist, some boy genius with two n's.

Watch out for the leaders, Crake used to say. First the leaders and the led, then the tyrants and the slaves, then the massacres. That's how it's always gone.

I don't want to see it. I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women. Not

he was like smog: there were always some of his molecules in the air.