Quotes About Influence

I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever.

The very first film I ever saw was during the war. My mother took me, I must have been about 4, and that was Beau Geste, with Gary Cooper.

Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he) would have gone to war with.

To Ronald Wilson Regan, The Fortieth President of The United States: The Man Who Won The War.

Rich countries do civil wars with tweets and votes.

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.

Those are the men, ' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.

Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.

How come we play war and not peace?""Too few role models.

Whoever won the war, would revise the history.

the main thing is to make history not to write it

You can't hammer in a nail with words...""No, but you can start a war with them.

War is too important to be left to the generals

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.

Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never happened, nor can there be, when you do not want to leave sovereign

Words are weapons of war.

Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Give me a book and I may change the world, give me a weapon and there will be no world to change.