Quotes About Influence

Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.

The price of greatness...is responsibility - Winston Churchill

So long as they speak your name, you shall never die.

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

I've learned to expect the worst from people who hold power.

Force a hand, and it will fight you. But convince a mind to think as you want it to think, and you have an ally.

One great work of art inspired by another.

Politics is a desperate business.

I have witnessed people transform cancer cells into healthy cells simply by thinking about them. I have witnessed human minds affecting the physical world in myriad ways. And once you see that happen..once this becomes a part of your reality, then some of the miracles you read about become simply a matter of degree.

Who better than a bunch of celibate male octogenarians to tell the world how to have sex? - Robert Langdon

If thoughts affect the world, then we must be very careful how we think. Destructive thoughts have influence, too, and we all know it's far easier to destroy than it is to create.

history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe.

Orang yang mengatakan bahwa kekuasaan tidak memunculkan kecanduan pasti belum benar-benar berkuasa

Enquanto o teu nome for dito, tu jamais morrerás.

Meaning … if enough people begin thinking the same thing, then the gravitational force of that thought becomes tangible … and it exerts actual force." Katherine winked. "And it can have a measurable effect in our physical world.

By the end of the eleventh century," Edmond said, "the greatest intellectual exploration and discovery on earth was taking place in and around Baghdad. Then, almost overnight, that changed. A brilliant scholar named Hamid al-Ghazali—now considered one of the most influential Muslims in history—wrote a series of persuasive texts questioning the logic of Plato and Aristotle and declaring mathematics to be 'the philosophy of the devil.

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

Sejarah selalu ditulis oleh pemenang.

The price of greatness…is responsibility.'

Ah, yes," Langdon said with a knowing smile. "Who better than a bunch of celibate male octogenarians to tell the world how to have sex?

luminary Albert Pike, along with the engraving of his most famous quote: WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR OURSELVES ALONE DIES WITH US; WHAT WE HAVE DONE FOR OTHERS AND THE WORLD REMAINS AND IS IMMORTAL.

Media is the right arm of anarchy

the human thought, if properly focused, had the ability to affect and change

From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics—the name Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles.