Quotes About Influence

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

Advertising is much like war, minus the venom

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances.

War is about remaking the world to suit the whims of some powerful group over the whims of some other powerful group. The dead are just the sparks that fly from the metal as they grind it down.

We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

We were such a part of everybody's life in the Second World War. We represented something overseas and at home - a sort of security.

[Hillary Clinton] is going to decide war, peace, and health, education, livelihood for my kids. I want the best person.

We have not looked at any particular movies [in creating War Horse], but again, it's hard not to see the similarities between those movies [because of those filmmakers' influence on the industry].

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.

Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.

In order to successfully impersonate men, the woman [Margaret Thatcher] launched a war.

The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.

We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.

. . . unfortunately, we can't control the actions of everyone.

The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the wide opportunities for large profits.

Lives should never be down to mere words, but I suppose they always are. Whether declarations of war, law, or treaty... words ever determine lives.