Quotes About Influence

Men make history, not the other way around.

If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.

John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.

We are all the President's men.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

It is the man determines what is said, not the words.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.

We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.

Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.

A great man is one who can have power and not abuse it.

It takes a man to make a devil.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

Man's conditioning has been so powerful that It has all but distroyed his ability to be self aware.

I had grown men cry. I mean, literally.

You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...

Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.