Quotes About Influence

No man can claim that he would have power if his life or circumstances were different.

Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.

Stop taking advice from people who aren't living the life you want.

Surround yourself with more positive people.

Sting of a bee kills one person but sting of words hurt an entire nations

Customs are more powerful than laws.

He who mixes with unclean things becomes unclean himself; he whose associations are pure becomes purer each day.

Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.

The sun sets without thy assistance.

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

[Of his son:] The boy is the most powerful of all the Hellenes; for the Hellenes are commanded by the Athenians, the Athenians by myself, myself by the boy's mother, and the mother by her boy.

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

It is said that when the historian John Wheeler-Bennett came to write the official biography of King George VI, the Queen Mother asked him to tone down the many references to her influence on her husband.

Although princes need not necessarily be intelligent, it is essential that they have some sort of public presence. The Duke of York had none. Fine-boned and slightly built, he looked frail, seemed lacking in physical stamina. His air was tense, hesitant, ill-at-ease. An observer had only to notice the incessant working of his jaw muscles to appreciate that he was under severe strain.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

My maternal grandmother was not a philosopher, and she used to say that "words have no bones, but they can break bones." She knew what we all know: a word can cause more pain, more damage than the sharpest knife. As far as she was concerned, saying something and doing something were exactly the same.

Die fast unlösbare Aufgabe besteht darin, weder von der Macht der anderen, noch von der eigenen Ohnmacht sich dumm machen zu lassen.

In principle everyone, however powerful, is an object.

Toda "cultura pura" tem causado mal-estar aos porta-vozes do poder

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public.

The climate of moral, cultural, and intellectual relativism – a relativism that began as a mere fashionable plaything for intellectuals – has been successfully communicated to those least able to resist its devastating practical effects.

I suspect, though I cannot prove, that in part this is the consequence of living in a world, including a mental world, so thoroughly saturated by the products of the media of mass communication. In such a world, what is done or happens in private is not done or has not happened at all, at least not in the fullest possible sense.

The way to a tyrant's heart is through a doctorate