Quotes About Influence

Everyone to one extent or another must face life's trials. There will always be those who try to influence or even dominate us. We can not allow such things to be an excuse for making the wrong choices. Ultimately each of us lives our own life and is responsible for it. (Terry Goodkind The Confessor)

Dalton had expected it, he never failed to find it remarkable the way he had but to say a thing enough times, through enough people, and it became the popular truth, its provenance lost as it was mimicked by ordinary people who came to believe that it was their own idea—as if original thought routinely came forth from their witless minds of clay.

My brother always says that real power is not brokered in public.

Even a good person can be swept up with the sentiments of a crowd and come to hold perverse beliefs.

It never failed to amaze her how simply saying something, no matter how untrue, was all it took to convince a large number of people of what you wanted them to believe.

Trouble sires three children.

If an idea was sound, it had to have a life beyond a leader, or the leader had failed.

Hatred has such powerful emotions attached to it that others take it up out of fear. In that way, hate spreads like panic in a crowd.

Sometimes lunatics are so driven, they can take the whole world into madness with them.

People whose magic could affect others in an overt manner didn't need to bite, he imagined, nor would they allow themselves to be held captive

The woman had a voice that could unwind a good rope.

Like it or not, the aggressor makes the rules.

for the right person, either would be a tool. for the wrong person, either could be a weapon of evil. it is the mind behind the tool that matters.

Few people understood the weapon that was a properly fashioned twist of information.

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything

Be warned, child, you have the true power of the tongue. You have never seen it. It will be a terrible doing if you ever let it loose.

They learned the hard way that you can't save nobody who ain't interested in being saved.

It now seems obvious that the way we're raised has a major impact on what kind of person we turn out to be, but so does who we love.

Why compound the problem by focusing your energy on things that are beyond your immediate control?

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...

Insanity is catching.

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.