Quotes About Influence

En cada generación nacen hombres perversos y el deber de una nación es hacerlos impotentes. Cuando veas a un hombre que ambicione el poder, lleno de odio y desprecio hacia sus semejantes, destrúyelo, Marco. Si alguien pretende cargos porque secretamente ambiciona lo que denomina "las masas" y desea controlarlas para esclavizarlas, prometiéndoles placeres que no han merecido, denúncialo. Debes tener presente Roma.

Más tarde se habría de reír al leer esta ingenua afirmación suya, pues habría de descubrir que un pueblo que sabe leer y escribir constituye todavía mejor clientela para los aventureros y farsantes políticos. La cultura no garantiza el buen juicio, el escepticismo ni la sabiduría.

who do you honestly believe rules any nation? The apparent rulers, or the real ones behind the scenes who manipulate a nation's finances for their own benefit? Mr. Lincoln is as helpless as you and I. He can only, unfortunate man, give his people slogans, and slogans, it would appear, are what the people want. I have yet to hear of a nation that ever rejected a war.

la clase media sirve para algo, es para trabajar y pagar impuestos con los que podamos sobornar a la plebe de Roma y tenerla contenta y dócil. Es cierto que los plebeyos de Roma son como animales, pero son muchos y necesitamos sus votos para alcanzar el poder. Que la clase media nos sirva hasta el final, porque los nuevos ciudadanos no piensan más que en el trabajo, la industria, el ahorro y otras preocupaciones vulgares por el estilo.»

It is related," said the grandfather, "that a lion, once he has tasted the blood and the flesh of a man, will eat no other meat. Our government has tasted the blood and the flesh of the people; it has tasted, suddenly, unlimited power.

Contra el poder del dinero y la corrupción no podrá hacerse nada.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

I could get drunk and run around Nashville naked. But I won't because I want to set a good example for my fans. I think they deserve to have a role model.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

I'm not sure if I'm ready to have children. I asked a friend of mine who has children, "Suppose I do have kids. What if when they grow up they blame me for everything that's wrong with their lives?" She laughed and said "What do you mean if?

You, I hope, are one of those explorers. You, I hope, found these sheets of copper and deciphered the words engraved on their surfaces. And whether or not your brain is impelled by the air that once impelled mine, through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.

Men are no different from your automata; slip a bloke a piece of paper with the proper figures on it, and he'll do your bidding.

And whether or not your brain is impelled by the air that once impelled mine, through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.

Technology is being used to manipulate us through our emotional reactions, so it's only fair that we use it to protect ourselves too.

now lets me provoke precise reactions in others. With pheromones and muscle tension, I can cause another

He means the Word: the sentence that, when uttered, would destroy the mind of the listener.

no one can deny the differences between the populaces of nations, in both physical appearance and temperament. This can only be the result of the maternal influence: the mother's womb is a vessel in which the social environment is incarnated. For example,

Men are no different from your automata; slip a bloke a piece of paper with the proper figures on it, and he'll do your bidding." The room grew light as the man lit an oil lamp.

We found that feeling appreciated and believing that your spouse values you directly influences how you feel about your marriage, how committed you are to it, and your belief that it will last.

When dealing with music, the personal is the political, and always has been.

And the two colleagues are still hanging out together: Van Heusen is buried in the Sinatra family plot in Cathedral City, California.