Quotes About Influence

America's politicians were concerned with nothing but the perpetuation of their own power through the next election cycle. The

Voters didn't care about public policy or economics or even their own well-being. What they wanted was to connect with their leadership on a gut level. To feel a part of something. To believe that they had power.

I used to believe in God. And even the royalty. Now I see the first as delusional and the second as naïve. All that pomp and circumstance is just a weapon the strong use against the weak. And a strangely effective one.

Anyone with honor and integrity was worn down and spit out by the political machine of party politics.

Kennedy could see she enabled his behavior. She was a pleaser.

The public never saw how producers and executives juiced up stories. Exaggerating some details and downplaying or ignoring others. How they went after something or someone, not based on how strong or important the story was, but what their ratings books told them.

No other evil we know is faster than Rumor, thriving on speed and becoming stronger by running. Small and timid at first, then borne on a light air, she flits over ground while hiding her head on a cloud-top.

Mind moves matter.

Queaque ipsa miserrima vidi,et quorum pars magna fui. (And those terrible things I saw, and in which I played a great part.)

Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori.

As a twig is bent the tree inclines.

Dux femina facit.

Atina potens Tiburque superbum, Ardea Crustumerique et turrigerae Antemnae.

Furens quid femina possit

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

All thinking (is) an effort to make thought escape from the thinker's mind past all obstacles as completely as possible: all society is an attempt to seise and influence and coerce each thought as it appears and force it to yield to another.

They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.

No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and society has no existence whatsoever

For we think back through our mothers if we are women.