Quotes About Influence

Much of what is going on and will go on could be learned by the outside world from Mein Kampf, the Bible and Koran together of the Third Reich. But—amazingly—there is no decent translation of it in English or French, and Hitler will not allow one to be made, which is understandable, for it would shock many in the West. How many visiting butter-and-egg men have I told that the Nazi goal is domination! They laughed.

But the Third Reich owed nothing to the fortunes of war or to foreign influence. It was inaugurated in peacetime, and peacefully, by the Germans themselves, out of both their weaknesses and their strengths. The Germans imposed the Nazi tyranny on themselves

What interested Hitler was political power; economics could somehow take care of itself.

situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.

To explain the nineteenth century, that is, the contemporary world, one had to consider first what it had been bequeathed from ancient times. Three things, said Chamberlain: Greek philosophy and art, Roman law and the personality of Christ.

The book which most profoundly influenced that mind, which sent Wilhelm II into ecstasies and provided the Nazis with their racial aberrations, was Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (Grundlagen des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts) a work of some twelve hundred pages which Chamberlain, again possessed of one of his "demons," wrote in nineteen months between April 1, 1897, and October 31, 1898, in Vienna, and which was published in 1899.

As one reads Hegel one realizes how much inspiration Hitler, like Marx, drew from him, even if it was at second hand. Above all else, Hegel in his theory of "heroes," those great agents who are

Though Eva Braun had a birdlike mind and made no intellectual impression on Hitler at all—perhaps this is one reason he preferred her company to that of intelligent women—it is obvious that his influence on her, as on so many others, was total.

Sheer human decency and civility are two of the most important contributions to our community life that women of courage can make.

Language is the continuation of coercion by other means.

In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things.

My job is not to try to give readers what they want, but to try to make readers want what I give.

Oratees are addicts. Strung out on an Ambassador's Language.

Lenin] wonders pugnaciously, however, whether a people 'influenced by the hopelessness of its situation' could be blamed for 'fling[ing] itself into a struggle that would offer it at least some chance of securing conditions for the further development of civilisation that were somewhat unusual'.

The thing is," Deeba said, eyeing Mr. Speaker, "you could only make words do what you want if it was just you deciding what they mean. But it isn't. It's everyone else, too. Which means you might want to give them orders, but you aren't in control. No one is.

He befouled where he was with where he had been.

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.

One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark.

Tiger father begets tiger son.

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.