Quotes About Influence

These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For.

There is no such thing as a "self-made" person. . . . Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

5. Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still really young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school. 6. Television puts a stop to crime because all the burglars and robbers, instead of going to burgle and rob, sit at home watching The Lone Ranger, Emergency Ward Ten and Dotto .

It may be a sad commentary, but it is a fact that many people equate political campaigns with television advertising. If you're on the air, you're campaigning; if you're not on the air, you're nowhere. Just days after the first ad appeared, several people I encountered commented on it.

About arrows - "They prick, cajole, exhort, sell, direct; and there is no way of measuring the amount of brain damage they do. It comes for free, however, like air pollution, Muzak in elevators, and the gentle sound of police sirens.

They used to advise young men to avoid gambling, drink, and women. And they were probably right in their time. But the single most important thing in the world today is not to read The New Yorker.

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

Clothes are powerful things. Dressed in a tramp's clothes it is very difficult, at any rate for the first day, not to feel that you are genuinely degraded.

A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

If you don't use your power, you won't have any power." It was like fundraising, where you wanted to ask people for favors, just as a cow had to be milked in order to keep the milk

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.

On December 1, 1947, the Great Beast died, aged seventy-two.

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. . . . A very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Some day you'll sit on the throne and the truth will be what you make it.

Tears aren't a woman's only weapon. The best one's between your legs.

The title was but a courtesy due him as a council member; Varys was lord of nothing but the spiderweb, the master of none but his whisperers.