Quotes About Influence

These other armies, they aren't the enemy. It's the teachers, they're the enemy.

Bienvenido a la raza humana. Nadie controla su propia vida, Ender. Lo más que puedes hacer es elegir ser controlado por personas buenas, por personas que te quieran.

Knowing at the same time that whatever people pretend to be, they become.

The world is always a democracy in times of flux, and the man with the best voice will win.

As a child of privilege, no one is your friend. They will claim to be your friends, they will laugh at your jokes and invite you to their parties, but they do not like you. They like your power, they like what you will become someday.

aislarle lo suficiente para no ahogar su creatividad, pues en caso contrario adoptará el sistema imperante aquí y le echaremos a perder

We may be young, but we're not powerless. We play by their rules long enough, and it becomes our game.

Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison.

Pueden ordenar a la Luna que se vuelva azul, pero no por eso cambiará de color. Escucha,Ender, los comandantes tienen la autoridad que tú les permitas tener. Cuanto más obedeces, más poder tienen sobre ti.

At first it was the man of real authority they noticed, but later, where everyone had authority, it was his cargo they cared to see.

Power will always end up with the sort of people who crave it.

Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

Since I don't have actual authority over anybody, Petra, how can it possibly matter if I'm not legitimately authorized?

Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll choose as we think they should?

They have influence, but no power. In my experience, influence is power.

We are the beasts that scheme, the predators that predict. We live by the lie, not by the truth; we study the truth only to shape more convincing lies that will bend other people to our will.

The task of the tyrant is not to compel, but to persuade even the unwilling that compliance better serves their interest than resistance.

It's a stupid leader who can't turn follower when somebody offers him a wiser course

o poder de provocar dor é o único que conta, o poder de matar e destruir, já que, se você não puder matar, fica sempre à mercê daqueles que podem, e nada, nem ninguém, vai te salvar

A real god doesn't care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods want to teach you how to be just like them.

Has anyone ever mentioned that when you smile, it would melt steel?

Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.

There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no one would save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

La Escuela de Batalla no nos ha creado, ya lo sabes. La Escuela de Batalla no crea nada. Solo destruye.