Quotes About Influence

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp with too much force is to be taken over by power, thus becoming its victim. —Bene Gesserit Axiom

Each of us influences the actions of the people we know. —XAVIER HARKONNEN, comment to his men

If you sit safely by and wait for your people to do your work for you, then you do not deserve to rule such a populace.

The Guild was beyond the control of the Padishah Emperor.

There are those who see influence and power as a reward rather than a responsibility. Such men do not make good leaders. —DIRECTEUR JOSEF VENPORT, internal Venport Holdings memo

Every person can be manipulated—and all of us are, in one manner or another. —wisdom of the Cogitors

Without their charismatic demagogue to lead them, the chattering monkeys would disperse and find some other idiotic superstition to believe in.

If you perceive that a person holds power over you, whether or not it is true, then your weakness is very real. —MANFORD TORONDO, final Lampadas rally

When you listen to the voices of power, do not heed only the loudest. Those that whisper may yield greater knowledge. —Bene Gesserit training manual, Studies in Influence

Beliefs are more powerful than facts." Leto stared through the thick sky at the magnificent, distant ship and frowned. It was often difficult to separate truth from fiction.…

An Emperor rules through wealth, military might, alliances, and influence. But he keeps his rule through the wisdom of his decisions, the respect of his subjects, and the momentum of history. Should he lose any one of those factors, his position is greatly weakened.

It is difficult to make power lovable—this is the dilemma of all governments. —PADISHAH EMPEROR HASSIK III, private Kaitain journals

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp with too much force is to be taken over by power, thus becoming its victim.

Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearances. Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality. —CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, The Rudiments of Power

The boy I used to know as Thomas Merker has been erased--replaced with a personality programmed by television and commercials to act a certain way.

Well, you know what they say, the reader is the final contributor. Cheers for doing the heavy lifting.

No, only villains try to change the whole world. The rest of us take it one person at a time.

The only way the dead live on is through the people they leave behind.

With little power comes little responsibility.

Every kid gets programmed by their 'rents, Chase. That doesn't mean they have to do as they're told.

I have that feeling, which I have had often in Chile, that while human beings can make efforts to control, tame and use this place, clearing forests, marking boundaries, their influence here is only transitory.

words can become truth if enough people speak them!

As you fulfill your own dreams, you make a difference in the world around you. When you become a master of life, you have the power to affect the lives of others inn unimaginable ways!

Increasingly power functions by manipulating that affective dimension rather than dictating proper or normal behaviour from on high. So power is no longer fundamentally normative, like it was in its disciplinary forms, it's affective. The