Quotes About Influence

Don't you see that the whole aim of newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? —George Orwell,

The state's authority would come from one of three sources: tradition, bureaucracy, or charisma.

It is the art of creating power.

The core proposition was that a minority would always rule over a majority.

Who says organization, says oligarchy." This was Michels's "iron law.

Greatness lies in persuading others to work for good.

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

the candidate that gets covered is the candidate that it is most profitable to cover

Mas apenas eleições não fazem uma democracia. Democracia quer dizer poder para o povo, mas poder quer dizer algo mais que apenas eleições. Em nossa tradição isso também significa controle através de críticas racionais.

In the 1970s, 3 percent of retiring members became lobbyists. Thirty years later, that number has increased by an order of magnitude. Between 1998 and 2004, more than 50 percent of senators and 42 percent of House members made that career transition.

We take this for granted in America today: a democracy in which the first test of credibility is not votes, or broad public support, but money.

Magic is the deliberate manipulation of coincidence.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of The Wind in the Willows, which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

Education will always be torn between two fatalities: apostleship and egoism.

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.

The anthropologist cannot always leave his own shadow out of the picture he draws.

Growing up in New York has influenced my style so much, and I have an amazing relationship with my stylist, Estee Stanley. We have so much fun with the whole process. She picks out dresses, I try things on and play dress up, and we get creative to see what works.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

You are what you share.