Quotes About Influence

so in like manner to understand the People a man should be a Prince, and to have a clear notion of Princes he should belong to the People.

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it is far better to earn the confidence of the people than to rely on fortresses

He had all the attributes of a king except a kingdom.

I enter the ancient courts of rulers who have long since died. There I am warmly welcomed, and I feed on the only food I find nourishing, and was born to savor. I am not ashamed to talk to them, and to ask them to explain their actions. And they, out of kindness, answer me. Four hours go by without my feeling any anxiety. I forget every worry. I am no longer afraid of poverty, or frightened of death. I live entirely through

Is it better to be loved or feared?

He who causes another to become powerful ruins himself, for he brings such a power into being either by design or by force, and both of these elements are suspects to the one whom he has made powerful.

My studies in criminology have suggested to me that only generals, Harley Street specialists and mine owners can get away with murder successfully.

Each man's morality, thought Georgia, is a compromise between the strength of his character and the strength of his environment. Where you have no character to fix the ratio, you get the genius and the lunatic, to whom morality is meaningless.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. —MARK TWAIN

When women gain a voice in society, there's evidence of less violence.

From Plato: "The measure of a man is what he does with power.

The Bauhaus was an attitude, not a style or a time period.

Celts appear to have been literate only where they had neighbours who could teach them.

I had no choice. Love does funny things to people.

Beauty might prevail in the very short term, but in the medium and longer terms, cultural norms - primarily those values and norms influenced by family - were more important.

Ruth Levinson Third grade teacher. She believes in me and I can be anything I want when I grow up. I can even change the world.

Most people lived under the illusion that they were in control of their lives, but that wasn't completely true. Yeah, you could decide what to have for breakfast and what to wear and all those little things, but as soon as you stepped out into the world, you were pretty much at the mercy of everyone else around you, and all you could do was hope that if they were having a bad day, they wouldn't decide to take it out on you.

It is amazing, what you can make yourself believe, when you have to. If you keep telling yourself you are a certain kind of person, eventually you will become that person. That's what the Final Solution was all about, really.

if he hadn't been following her, she doubted she'd be thinking about him at all. Yet he was still able to ruin her night, and that bothered her. Because she was allowing it to happen. Because she was giving him that power over her.

Jamie Sullivan podía conducirlo a uno a la locura a veces.

I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.

I do not know how anyone can mould anyone.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.