Quotes About Influence

O poder é feito de minúcias.

La plupart des hommes de pouvoir tirent leur aura de la position qu'ils occupent. À partir du moment où ils la perdent, c'est comme si la prise avait été arrachée. Ils se dégonflent comme ces poupées qui se trouvent à l'entrée des parcs d'attractions. On les croise dans la rue et on ne réussit pas à comprendre comment un type de ce genre a pu susciter autant de passions.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Apart from the Punic Wars, I've been blamed for just about everything.

Anyone who doesn't design, accepts to be designed.

Thank you for your anonymous, enthusiastic posting of my quotes, but one of them is taken from Einstein, another from IB Singer and a third from Shakespeare. Let's return what's rightfully theirs as I feel their brands could use the signal boost.

Temptation's less about wearing someone down with repetition than it is about finding the right phrase and dropping it in at the right time.

The key to evil? Freedom. The key to freedom? Money. For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do . . .

How could one engage the world and yet not be cheapened by the aggressive dumbing-down that was the lifeblood of the commercial culture, the festering underbelly of the polity he sought to lead?

Thomas Paine was kind of the oh, I don't know. My apologies to Thomas Paine, but kind of the me of the genera I mean, I can't think of anybody else. A guy just saying, "Hey, really, stand up. Come on. We can do it." He was kind of the he was the media guy, really. He just did pamphlets, the rest of us just do TV.

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

Money doesn't talk it screams

If you don't find a leader, perhaps it is because you were meant to lead.

We have an issue with kids' having unfettered access to the worst the Internet has to offer instead of the best that our communities can provide.

Apathy and arrogance: These are the real culprits that affect us all to one degree or another.

He was leading those who risked their lives over that bridge in Selma, not Janice Joplin, Columbia University, or a labor union. It wasn't John Lennon that taught people about love and peaceful resistance — that job fell on the shoulders of a Jewish carpenter.

Control the language and you control the argument.

Imagine our kids begging and pleading, throwing tantrums to get you to buy more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Yes, this is possible. It is possible to create this world!" And that's what all of this is really about: creating a world that meets the approval of the Obamas and other controllists.

It must be frustrating for decent parents to watch their children fall under the influence of radical educators, and sometimes make foolish decisions based on the predominant cultures in their schools. But no one should be surprised it happens—far too many educators are moral relativists who reject the notion of absolute right or wrong.

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

Washington likes to threaten the people over whom they exercise power.

Time magazine's Jay Carney and Richard Stengel are now in government while Obama aides David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs are commentators on MSNBC.

function is another manifestation of the public/private merger: the for-profit prison companies have, in essence, established themselves as part of the government, and laws are written by them and for their benefit. In the case of the prison industry, that's particularly