Quotes About Influence

Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it.

Books are carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows of the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.

In addition to grand estate, Coucy clearly possessed a personal power of attraction and a faculty for not making enemies.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

Not a passing phenomenon nor an external force, the companies had become a way of life, a part of society itself, used and joined by its rulers even as they struggled to throw them off. They ate at society from within like Erysichthon, the "tearer up of earth," who, having destroyed the trees in the sacred grove of Demeter, was cursed by the goddess with an insatiable appetite and finally devoured himself attempting to satisfy his hunger. Discipline

Folly is a child of power.

To understand the popes we must look at the princes.

With her trade and marine gone, Britain would lose the East Indies next, and "then France will dictate to us more imperiously than ever we did to Ireland.

In the end Britain made rebels where there had been none.

the inadvertent by-product of the nobles' passionate pursuit of war.

How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII

The Republic cured me of the Republic.

yet he represented that emotional choice a people makes to satisfy its craving for a leader.

By such accident of the human mind, war, trade, and history are shaped. The

He believed that rank without power was a sham.

Complacency is an attribute of long-retained power like that of the Chinese.

What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.

The affair made men feel larger than life.

the Archimedean point where the lever can be applied." At

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.

The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.

Joffre was adept at taking advice, and submitted more or less consciously to the reigning doctrinaires of the Operations Bureau. They formed what a French military critic called "a church outside which there was no salvation and which could never pardon those who revealed the falsity of its doctrine.