Quotes About Influence

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

With words we govern men.

As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.

People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind.

If he isn't named footballer of the year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to Kremlin. (on Tommy Smith)

I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old, I dressed up as Wolverine with Adamantium claws that I made out of aluminum!

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.

I have at all times tried to use my influence toward protecting the property holders and substantial men of the country from thieves, outlaws and murderers, among whom I do not care to be classed.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

In a democracy, a man who does not listen cannot lead.

Marilyn Monroe was taken advantage of by most of the men that knew her, including Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, whom I also knew very well.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

Money is what makes a man act funny.

When good men die their goodness does not perish.