Quotes About Influence

Language too is a brake upon social change.

You're a hero here.' 'I don't want to be a hero.' 'What do you want?' 'I want to be a leader.

No, Kinkade," Chase said thoughtfully. "I don't think a woman can destroy you. You can't be destroyed because…there's nothing to destroy. I warrant that you just reflect whatever's near you. Like a puddle of mud. You reflect honor if you're near it. You reflect decay if you're near it. Left to your own devices, you've no moral center at all, no concern except for your own pleasure. This is the result.

He wanted to be a man she admired. The way he admired her. He wanted her to think of him as brave. He wanted to be better because of her, and for her. He was better because of her. She'd changed him irrevocably.

Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.

He who controls the remote, controls the world

Men. They were all so incredibly easy to sway. Pat them on their heads, give them something to eat, and they'll follow you anywhere. Add a smile and a few stupid compliments, and they'll immediately forget all about their other responsibilities.

You kill a cockroach, Pete. You don't domesticate him.

Because the only way to resist, our husbands had taught us, was by not resisting.

Oggigiorno, chiunque disponga di uno scalcinato laptop e di un accesso a Internet può fare sentire il proprio grido barbarico, qualunque sia il suo motore propulsore. Ma, sorpresa!, per ogni persona che ha qualcosa da dire sembra ci sia almeno qualcun altro disposto ad ascoltare. E, in qualche caso, non si tratta nemmeno di parenti.

Testosterone is the world's most dangerous drug. Get one molecule on you and you're helpless.

Prophecies don't simply come about of themselves, you know. They need a little helping along.

To say that is to say we have no choice at all in what we do, how we live. I don't believe that, Uncle. Perhaps we do have a short span in this world [...]; perhaps our scope is somewhat limited. But within those limits we do have the power to change things, the power to make choices and to go where we must.

Being friends, that's a big thing for some folk. One good friend can change your whole life.

Amazing, I thought nobody could tell that man what to do. -Foalan to Bridei Talking about Broichan

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways. Indeed, originality is recognized as disobedience, pathology, incorrigible character and/or unlawful conduct to be prosecuted by the state.

Mao's rule was best understood in terms of a medieval court, in which he exercised spellbinding power over his courtiers and subjects. He was also a maestro at 'divide and rule', and at manipulating men's inclination to throw others to the wolves.

Unlike most founding dictators—Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler—Mao did not inspire a passionate following through his oratory, or ideological appeal. He simply sought willing recruits among his immediate circle, people who would take his orders.

Every word of Chairman Mao's is universal absolute truth, and every word equals ten thousand words!

The two wills made it unmistakeably clear that it was Cixi's dying wish that the Chinese should have their parliament and their vote.

Empress Dowager Cixi's legacy was manifold and towering.

It was all too clear that Cixi was the only person who could hold the empire together.

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But listen, devils never drive humanity to extinction. Why? Because if people cease to exist, so do devils.