Quotes About Influence

A trend was a trend only because people thought it so. And in thinking it so, they made it so.

Biryukov continued, "Roman Talanov, my counterpart in the FSB, is leading this charge. I suppose with complete control over Russian intelligence activity abroad, he can expand his influence and begin destabilizing nations beyond the near abroad. Russia will invade Ukraine, probably within the next few weeks. They will annex the Crimea. From there, if they meet no resistance from the West, they will take more of the country, all the way to the Dnieper River.

Even today, the memory of Ribbon Creek influences the way new recruits are handled—not with kid gloves, but with respect for their safety and dignity. This too is part of the Marine ethos: to take care of their brother and sister Marines.

They loved their country largely because they controlled it.

The pinnacle of power in China is the nine-member Politburo Standing Committee, the tiny body that sets policy for the nation's 1.4 billion citizens.

thing, most deadly of all to those who hold it in their earthly hands. For yourself, you must decide. What sort of leader do you wish to be, and with what other leaders

Law, without force, is impotent.

Everything was politics, and politics was ideology, and ideology came down to personal prejudices rather than the quest for truth.

It was so strange, how much fear there was in the world, and the most fearful of all were so often those who held the power in their hands.

He was master of all he surveyed. At least that was the phrase that came to mind, and with all such aphorisms it could be both true and false at the same time.

Malé dÄ›ti poznají lépe Coca-Colu než pórek. Je to tím, že Coca-Cola za marketing ro?nÄ› utratí dvÄ› miliardy dolar?.

Just like any electorate, they delighted in making candidates for their favors sweat.

Only centuries after the death of Jesus—by which time, astonishingly, even the Caesars had been brought to acknowledge him as Christ—did his execution at last start to emerge as an acceptable theme for artists.

As was usual in Tilling, the presence of the Wyses curbed the tongued and improved the manner of those around them...A silence generally fell on the company after Mr. Wyse had finished speaking, his language was so fine, so Augustan that it seemed a pity to defile its memory with effusions in the sugar tongue.

BORN: 1856 George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman, Major Barbara), Dublin 1894 Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, Crome Yellow), Godalming, England DIED: 1934 Winsor McCay

It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.

The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy.

Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.

The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.

the greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. they put forth no claims for themselves, establish no schools of systems in their name. they never create or stir but just melt down into love

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

They accepted my donation, so they're aware they'd better serve my interests or I'll buy some leadership that will.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other people's decisions for them?

Human societies have always defined themselves through narration, but nowadays corporations are telling man's stories for him.