Quotes About Influence

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone have your way.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Handel was a man of the world; but Bach was a world of a man.

The devil does not stay where music is.

O black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How, in your darkness, did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre?

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.

Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament; but in the reporters' gallery yonder, there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.

He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young, and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter the whole face of the world would have been changed.

A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull.

Nothing determines who we will become so much as those things we choose to ignore.

Time is the author of authors.

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it - but all the same, it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it it opinion that uses the force.

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.

The object of oratory is not truth, but persuasion.