Quotes About Influence

To control and enslave the minds of men, all one must do is convince them that a secret exists, and that he is privy to information regarding that secret; hence the power of priests and psychics.

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

Man is a child of his environment

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.

Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.

Donald Trump, yes, he's somebody's little boy. But he is his ideas because his ideas are what's going to affect us. As a man, he can do very little. But his ideas could kill us all.

The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]

Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.

Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

The king is the man who can.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.