Quotes About Influence

Weapons and technology may help win wars, but it is only ideas that have the power to truly change the world.

If history only remembers one in a thousand of us, then that future will be filled with stories of who we were and what we did.

Morality is decided by the victors

You cannot intimidate people with real bullets, but you can intimidate them with fake gun.

One just voice is greater than an army.

Superior might does not guarantee success, especially in a war where political considerations dominate.

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation.

One small boy was all it took to upset the universe

That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.

Whoever has the sword will have the earth.

Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

I will follow anyone... And tell everyone...How grateful I am...To the Western nations.

5, 6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.

I wonder are we the people really that high on these political agenda's these day's? Or are we merely pawns in the majestic Game of Thrones?

If everyone loves you, maybe you don't need so many tanks.

When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias.

We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and the American struggle in Iraq. These events swung American public opinion in our favor

He hadn't killed nearly as many people as I had. But then again, he hadn't had my advantage, which was the full cooperation of our Government.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high.

We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.

Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!