Quotes About Influence

If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses

The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.

If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.

Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .

I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.

Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

Guns don't win wars; guns and bombs may kill a man but they cannot make him follow their lead, nor will they ever coerce an unyielding man to yield.

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

A man-of-war is the best ambassador.

Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.