Quotes About Influence

Even great men can be corrupted

One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain. Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.

It doesn't take the most powerful nations on Earth to create the next global conflict. Just the will of a single man.

It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.

A man's mind is elevated to the status of the women he associates with.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

The man molds the idol and then the idol molds the man.

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes by little people. It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

The soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

All middle men are bad.

And when and Eve submitted unto Satan they are the ones that empowered Satan. In a sense Man made Satan. God created Lucifer but Man made Satan.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.

Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

He's not just the most powerful man in labor," Robert Kennedy had said in the wake of Hoffa's announcement; "he's the most powerful man in the country, next to the President.