Quotes About Influence

no somos más que políticos: vociferantes putas de la retórica. Lazarus

The powerful hold nothing but contempt for those who toady to them, all but the toadies know this.

The world is led by Alpha Males, but the machinery of the world turns on the bearings of the Beta Male.

With influence comes power, with power, abuse. Jakan was only the son of a Pharisee. He was only two years older than Joshua and me, but he was well on his way to mastering cruelty. If there is a single joy in having everyone you have ever known two thousand years dead, it is that Jakan is one of them. May his fat crackle in the fires of hell for eternity!

Power without moral direction is the most dangerous force in the world.

Names are powerful things; you should be careful whom you share yours with. You never know when a person might turn your name against you.

There will be cases where someone's future will rest in your hands 

Galbatorix used to call me Kingkiller. You're Kingkiller as well now." "It seems to run in the family." "You'd better keep an eye on Roran, then.

I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference.

Los logros de los hijos son una muestra de la educación que recibieron de sus padres.

Un hombre con conciencia... lo más peligroso del mundo. Nasuada

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Don't speak flippantly or without though, for your words will have impact far beyond what you intend.

Take comfort, then, that whatever you choose in life has importance beyond yourself. Importance, even, on a cosmic scale.

Lense–Thirring effect, aka: frame-dragging).

In the right hands, words can move more bricks than the strongest team of mules.

But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.

The chair outranks the badge.

If I become like you, I will have no will of my own. I will have no individuality, I will just be your puppet.' 'True.' Sio smiled thinly. 'But even a puppet may dance before its strings are drawn tight. You will dance, Cass, and the heavens will applaud you.

She leaned her head to one side of the pillow to meet her son's eyes. Never give into them, she whispered. No matter what they do or how important you feel it is to get their acceptance. Never kill part of yourself for them. Because other people will notice that part is missing before you do.

Hitler repeatedly pointed to the Turkish race-murder of Armenians as an example for his own thinking.

Good teachers put snags in the river of children passing by, and over the years, they redirect hundreds of lives. Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy theory around the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done.

I felt vigorous and cheered by borrowed popularity.

How does one person with great talents come to exert a force on the world? I think in Farmer's case the answer lies somewhere in the apparent craziness, the sheer impracticality, of half of everything he does, including the hike to Casse.