Quotes About Influence

This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.

It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

Today we rule Germany, tomorrow, the world.

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.

You hold in your hands the future of the world.

A prince ought to have two fears, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers.

War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.

Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will.

Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.

The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.