Quotes About Influence

we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But

Zacz??am dostrzega?, ?e dla niektórych religia stanowi po prostu formÄ™ polityki, której nie wolno krytykowa?.

Recently, an Ethiopian and several Kenyan drivers have sounded a bigger alarm. As one said, "I never thought I would see a second wave of colonialism, but there is one and it's Chinese. Our countries are becoming wholly owned subsidiaries of China.

Six years after that, I went to the White House with Wilma and watched as President Clinton and Hillary Clinton presented her with a Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor. As she stood there, strong, kind, and not at all intimidated by another chief of state, I was not the only one in the audience who thought, She could be president. I also thought, In a just country, she would be.

Saying politics is dirty is just a way of keeping us from changing the politics of our own lives.

As in history, a potentially powerful majority was being divided by an entrenched powerful few.

Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak. Perhaps because women are seen as good listeners, I find

an audience is half women and half men, women worry about the reaction of the men around them. But

began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn't criticize.

the central concept of self-esteem – the belief that each person counts and can make a difference

Both truth and falsity rule the world. Falsity by virtue of numbers and truth by virtue of control.

The successful use the power they think they have while the rest, resting desire the power they think they don't have.

Use your power greatly and you may beat those with great power.

Michael I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

Technology is not neutral.

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

Wenn die Blattläuse auf den Rosenzweigen sitzen und sich hübsch dick und grün gesogen haben, dann kommen die Ameisen und saugen ihnen den filtrierten Saft aus den Leibern. Und so geht's weiter, und wir haben's so weit gebracht, daß oben immer an einem Tage mehr verzehrt wird, als unten in einem beigebracht werden kann.

Havadaki her bir esintinin oyunca?? m?y?z biz?

All our learned schoolmasters and tutors are agreed that children do not know why they want what they want. But no one likes to think - blindingly obvious though it is, in my view - that grown-ups too, like children, totter around on the earth and, like the children, do not know where they have come from or where they are going, act no more than children do for any true purpose and are just as governed by biscuits, cakes, and the rod.

He had learned by experience that the motives and purposes by which men are influenced are far too various to be made to coalesce upon a single point, even on the most solid representations.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.