Quotes About Influence

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

No single man makes history. History cannot be seen just as one cannot see grass growing.

We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.

Branch Rickey made me a better man.

Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket. "Where does it come from?" "From the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.

Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.

To fight in another man's armour is something more than to be influenced by his style of fighting.

It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.

Undoubtedly, Patsy Cline was a trailblazer and in that respect, all women who are singular in a man's field have a special power.

We are all impacted by the failings of a news media that almost always chooses which stories to cover according to the priorities and perspectives of white men with private educations.

He who befriends a man whose conduct is vicious, whose vision impure, and who is notoriously crooked, is rapidly ruined.

The man who walks with Henslow.

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.

I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was also a man of deep conviction.

Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.