Quotes About Influence

The Holy Ghost causes out feelings to be more tender. We feel more charitable and compassionate. We are calmer. We have a greater capacity to love. People want to be around us because our very countenances radiate the influence of the Spirit. We are more godly in character. As a result, we are more sensitive to the promptings of the Holy Ghost and thus able to comprehend spiritual things.

Youth leaders, are you holding aloft our standards, or have you compromised them for the lowest common denominator in order to appease the deceived or vile within the Church? Are the dances and music in your cultural halls virtuous, lovely, praiseworthy, and of good report (Articles of Faith 13), or do they represent a modern Sodom with short skirts, loud beat, strobe lights, and darkness?

We should not, therefore, be astonished when other nations view the United States as a "faltering democracy." How long would a basketball team that was ranked number one in the polls remain in that position if the student body, the school paper, and supporting faculty constantly pointed out its weaknesses?

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

A revolution does not have to eat its children. In fact, it is those who are in power who could very well initiate revolutions. Let us not be old-fashioned and think only of armed uprisings of minorities as revolutions. Any movement that seeks to overhaul established attitudes is a revolution.

What corruption is for poor countries, lobbying is for rich ones, a means of obtaining political influence through the expense of money.9 No other country has anything like the number of American lobbyists who load up legislation with interest group bargains.

there is little reason to think that interest group pressure is invariably benign, where a concentrated rich group (e.g., an industry association) competes against a dispersed and poorly organized group (e.g., consumers).

Lincoln is properly remembered as a champion of democracy, but there was a good bit of Otto von Bismarck in him as well.

Easily led. And obviously used to being handled by the women in his life. Excellent. It meant that he'd already been thoroughly house-trained.

It's a very lucrative field, you see. Keeping gangsters and corporate sharks out of jail.

The press does not speak the voice of the nation. It does not even speak the voice of those who write for it.

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

Culture follows power.

It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal.

Tiana wanted to dig in her heels--literally--as Lottie tugged on her arm, but she stood no chance when pitted against her best friend and her daddy. Instead, she braced herself for the impact of having to be near Naveen and pretend he had no effect whatsoever on her. She was no Evelyn Preer, but a few more months of this and her acting skills might get her all the way to Hollywood.

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

Why do you write? Because I want to persuade everybody to agree with me about everything, for their own good.

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

Quando c'erano i Viceré, i nostri erano Viceré; adesso che abbiamo il parlamento, lo zio è deputato!

One doesn't remember one's own life chronologically, the way it happened, what was most important, or even what seemed most important. We are not in control of our memories. One doesn't own one's memories. One is owned by them.

The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set