Quotes About Influence

Ogni volta che agiamo, pur con le migliori intenzioni, ogni volta che interferiamo con le cose del mondo, rischiamo di provocare un disastro che forse non dipende da noi, ma che non si verificherebbe senza il nostro intervento.

We can compel men not to be bad, but we cannot compel them to be good, don't you find?

Sometimes the lion must roar, just to remind the horse of his fear.

fate has every power over us, but two. Fate cannot control our free will, and fate cannot lie.

Sooner or later, fate puts us together with all the people, one by one, who show us what we could, and shouldn't, let ourselves become.

And all of it depended upon our action, our interference in his life, because no man is saved without love.

Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships. We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them. I

The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.

we can shape behaviour more fluently than we can understand it.

Those words of his are mine forever now.

the lion must roar, just to remind the horse of his fear.

Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

So, that's it,' he concluded. 'The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards. The rest of us, all six billion of us, do pretty much what we are told.

There is no such thing as a trivial choice. That is why so many powerful people try to influence all our choices

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business. But

The rest of us, all six billion of us, do pretty much what we are told!

Quando agimos, mesmo com a melhor das intenções, quando interferimos com o mundo, arriscamos sempre um desastre, que poderá não sair da nossa mão, mas que não aconteceria sem a nossa intervenção.

Everything you ever sense, in touch or taste or sight or even thought, has an effect on you that's greater than zero.

But it's not true. It's the other way round. Money isn't the root of all evil. Evil is the root of all money. There's no such thing as clean money. All the money in the world is dirty, in some way, because there's no clean way to make it.

The elephant in the room is that we can shape behaviour more fluently than we can understand it.

Always the bridesmaid , never the bride. Always the godfather, never the god.

Birds know themselves not to be at the center of anything, but at the margins of everything. The end of the map. We only live where someone's horizon sweeps someone else's. We are only noticed on the edge of things; but on the edge of things, we notice much.

When you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even it it's a moronic proclamation ... Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.

I dabble in causes and effects.