Quotes About Influence

Don't underestimate the viciousness of academics when funding is at stake.

Laws die, but Books never.

O sadismo, se o reduzirmos ao princípio fundamental que o norteia, pouco mais será do que o desejo de vincar indelevelmente, e da maneira mais inequívoca e extrema, a marca da própria personalidade sobre as coisas e os seres do mundo exterior.

He had no individual interest . he was a real hero, our real leader . He was our role model.

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim), so for the most part the Commodore on the quarter-deck gets his atmosphere at second hand from the sailors on the forecastle. He thinks he breathes it first; but not so. In much the same way do the commonalty lead their leaders in many other things, at the same time that the leaders little suspect it.

And once for all, let me tell thee and assure thee, young man, it's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.

The United States wore empire on its brow

Such is the summary style in which the Typees convert perverse-minded and rebellious hogs into the most docile and amiable pork; a morsel of which placed on the tongue melts like a soft smile from the lips of Beauty.

Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself, as his measureless power of deceiving and bedevilling so many others.

This terrible event clothed the archangel with added influence; because his credulous disciples believed that he had specifically fore- announced it, instead of only making a general prophecy, which any one might have done, and so have chanced to hit one of many marks in the wide margin allowed. He became a nameless terror to the ship.

it's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.

What was America in 1492 but a Loose-Fish, in which Columbus struck the Spanish standard by way of wailing it for his royal master and mistress? What was Poland to the Czar? What Greece to the Turk? What India to England? What at last will Mexico be to the United States? All Loose-Fish.

This terrible event clothed the archangel with added influence; because his credulous disciples believed that he had specifically fore-announced it, instead of only making a general prophecy, which any one might have done, and so have chanced to hit one of many marks in the wide margin allowed.

Is it, thought Captain Delano, that this hapless man is one of those paper captains I've known, who by policy wink at what by power they cannot put down? I know no sadder sight than a commander who has little of command but the name.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

Something shot from my dilated nostrils, he has inhaled it in his lungs. Starbuck is now mine; cannot oppose me now, without rebellion.

It's a great mistake to think dictators are all-powerful! They're hobbled by their paper shufflers, like all politicians. More so, in a way.

So it is to Hitler. He has never moved when he couldn't get away with it.

It's not money, but what you can buy with it. Money is power. Money is security. Money is freedom.

Now I'm not a Nazi, I've never said the Führer is a thousand percent right. But he's a winner, damn it all. He gets things done, like Roosevelt. And you want us to get rid of him?

the winds of war have been blowing us all around the world.

A democracy in a backward or unstable country simply gets smashed by the best-organized power gang.

By keeping back the twenty-five squadrons from the lost Battle of France, he acted toughly, wisely, and ungallantly; and he turned the war to the course that ended five long years later, when Hitler killed himself and Nazi Germany fell apart. This deed put Winston Churchill in the company of the rare saviors of countries, and perhaps of civilizations.