Quotes About Influence

It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.

The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.

Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

Men have to take more responsibility. Men have to intervene

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.

It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

It's to me one simple rule. Who imposes his will on the other man?

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.

Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.

Man can be scientifically manipulated.

Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.