Quotes About Influence

She was so pliable. He could do anything with her, arrange her as he pleased, and she would say yes. Not just yes. Oh yes!

All that speech-making can bloat a man up. I've watched the process, many times now. It's those kinds of words, the kind they use in speeches. They have a fermenting effect on the brain. You can see it on television, during the political broadcasts - the words coming out of their mouths like bubbles of gas.

After we're gone the work of our knives will survive us.

They should all be cheered by it, for isn't it what they want? What we all want: to leave a message behind us that has an effect, if only a dire one: a message that cannot be cancelled out.

He will exist for her at least, he will be created by her, he will have a place in her mythology after all.

Commander Judd is a great believer in the restorative powers of young women, as were King David and assorted Central American drug lords

When the leaders were older than me I could believe in their wisdom, I could believe they had transcended rage and malice and the need to be loved. Now I know better. I look at the faces in newspapers, in magazines, and wonder: what greeds, what furies drive them on?

Ed, knows power corrupts, they'll have experienced that first-hand. They'll see how I'd be tempted to use my own power for personal reasons. They may not approve of that, but they'll buy

What were prizes but one more level of control imposed on Art by the establishment?

Powerful men don't take well to rejection. Rage could result. There

All of these men are thinking mostly about ruling and rulers. Who should rule, and how. Who should have power, how they should get it, and how they should use it.

Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it's game over forever.

Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships...

These kids could hardly burp without some adult pointing a camera at them and telling them to do it again—as if they lived their lives twice, once in reality and the second time for the photo.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.

Gök gürültüsü iyidir, etkileyicidir ama as?l iÅŸ gören ÅŸimÅŸektir Mark Twain

Once they respond to my beckoning I have them forever," she said as Swan rested her tiny head in the palm of Lynne's hand.

Never trust a writer, he had warned me. All the world is ours to kidnap and transform as we will, to our own purpose.

Dominant people, it appears, use snap judgements and conform to received wisdom more than do the less dominant. Those who need power, and those who have it, think differently.

according to the psychologist irving Janis, is that our sense of belonging (which makes us feel safe) blinds us to dangers and encourages greater risk-taking.

British would use every means from persuasion to bribery in Morocco and when those failed the wives of British diplomats knew what they had to do to further Britain's interests.

sternly, and I was stricken myself to realize that Lev Schuster's Yiddish phrases continued to infect my vocabulary.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed that's all who ever have.