Quotes About Influence

Robespierre fu un capo popolare, nel senso che i suoi discorsi e la sua fama erano noti, ma personalmente non si trovò mai alla testa della folla rivoluzionaria in nessuna situazione decisiva, come accadde del resto ad altri celebri capi rivoluzionari.

Robespierre è l'esempio perfetto del carattere del capo di un gregge democratico».

Acaso no seguimos siendo los viejos Tigres de Mompracem?- repuso el portugués-. Donde ponemos las garras, arrancamos lo que queremos. ¿Quieres una prueba?

It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.

My dream is not to just be a supermodel but to be a role model as well...

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

Oh dear! how unamiable I am when I am with my uncle and aunt," thought Rachel, "thoroughly detestable I may say, and yet when I am with those girls, or little Charlie, I can be as good as gold, and so tame that that baby can lead me; I do believe evil qualities are more catching than measles.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

You can only control your own actions. Not other people's reactions.

No matter what role you play in a meeting, how you show up in that role is critical to the meeting's success.

We carry our past with us everywhere we go.

The evils of a bad tax are quite sure to be pressed upon the ears of Parliament in season and out of season; the few persons who have to pay it are thoroughly certain to make themselves heard.

The use of the Queen, in a dignified capacity, is incalculable. Without her in England, the present English Government would fail and pass away. Most people when they read that the Queen walked on the slopes at Windsor—that the Prince of Wales went to the Derby—have imagined that too much thought and prominence were given to little things. But they have been in error; and it is nice to trace how the actions of a retired widow and an unemployed youth become of such importance.

In reverencing wealth we reverence not a man, but an appendix to a man.

The working classes contribute almost nothing to our corporate public opinion, and therefore, the fact of their want of influence in Parliament does not impair the coincidence of Parliament with public opinion. They are left out in the representation, and also in the thing represented.

The idea that the head of the Government is the head of society is so fixed in the ideas of mankind that only a few philosophers regard it as historical and accidental, though when the matter is examined, that conclusion is certain and even obvious.

The newspapers only repeat the side their purchasers like: the favourable arguments are set out, elaborated, illustrated; the adverse arguments maimed, misstated, confused.

The leading statesmen in a free country have great momentary power. They settle the conversation of mankind. It is they who, by a great speech or two, determine what shall be said and what shall be written for long after.

A state between the mind and the body, something intermediate half-way from the newspaper to a nap—this is what we may call the middle-life theory of the influential English gentleman—the true aspiration of the ruler of the world.

It should be observed, too, in fairness to the unroyal species of Cabinet government, that it is exempt from one of the greatest and most characteristic defects of the royal species. Where there is no Court there can be no evil influence from a Court.

Religion is the best weapon to rule or use a nation if you know how to use it.

You can turn me into dust but you can neither kill nor can suppress my ideology. Rather my ideology will spread with greater intense after my death.

Youth is the decider of the future of a nation and teachers are their guiders or trainers.

In greatest minds' great thoughts earth's passed; betimes Fatal, foreshape the future.