Quotes About Influence

acceptance and approval are powers held by others,

Nazi Party gained power in Germany in 1933, they immediately embraced eugenics and forced sterilization, inspired by the U.S. movement and using it as a model.

Translation is the opposite of empire

What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.

Public schoolboys are not merely conservatives, they are by nature totalitarian reactionaries.

Work with what you have control of and you'll have your hands full.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense Department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

I regretted I was not the head of a clan; however, though not possessed of such an hereditary advantage, I would always endeavour to make my tenants follow me.

Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.

What can he mean by coming among us? He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

Subsidies entail politiciansí taking the citizenís paycheck and then using it to buy his submission.

There is no technological magic bullet that will make the government as smart as it is powerful.

The principle of government supremacy is Clinton's clearest legacy.

Clinton exploited and expanded the dictatorial potential of the U.S. presidency.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

the general public enjoys reading any book, of any kind, that is being read by the public generally, through much that herd instinct for doing what everybody else is doing, which exalts sane women upon three-inch heels, and attaches buttons to the sleeves and coat-tails of presumably intelligent men.