Quotes About Influence

A lot of publishers have close relationships with people in power. So the press, which used to speak truth to power, doesn't. The big result of that has been the erosion of trust.

As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.

The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa.

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

The fundamental truth is that the guys with the guns matter more than most.

We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.

The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth.

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

Truth casts a spell of its own.

I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.

They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.

The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.

The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth, if he does then he should be worshiped.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.