Quotes About Influence

I know that at your age you can feel powerless, and that powerlessness can make you angry.

We've sent over 180 million frowns from the U.S alone, and you can bet that has an effect on the regime.

The effect of his appearance on the world was profound. He walked through the city not as a poor Tenderloin kid, his baggy clothes shrouding him with negative assumptions, but as Rupert, the preppy cartoon bear, who was welcome anywhere. He became someone the adults he encountered—at his high school, at the mosque, at any store he entered—trusted and wanted around.

Something made them the way they are. Things do happen for a reason.

ISHOULD PROBABLY thank the mainstream media. If it weren't for their abject failure to do their jobs, you'd have no idea who I was.

Do white supremacists exist? Yes. Do black, Jew, and Hispanic haters exist? Yes. But are these people fringe and irrelevant? Hell yeah. They have no institutional power. And that's exactly how it should be.

This knowledge is power and you should be empowered, especially when it comes to politicians who will say anything to get your vote.

When you're running a bureaucracy the best way to safeguard your job is to make sure you're the only one who knows how the whole thing works. -Lord Julius

I firmly believe that if you can't fool all of the people all of the time you should start breeding them for stupidity." - Weisshaupt

I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket.

There is another thing about the Chinese: they do not like to have unfriendly powers on either side of them.

She glanced around at the tombstones. "You're surrounded by death here. Way too depressing. You really might want to think about getting another job." "You see death and sadness in these sunken patches of dirt, I see lives lived fully and the good deeds of past generations influencing the future ones.

Number of children fathered got little enough to do with being a good daddy.' - Louisa Mae Cardinal

The money folks will forgive a lot if the cash keeps rolling in. Same goes for the government.

Males. You have to lead them to the water and then show them how to slurp it.

Montgomery said, "I thought there were, like, laws against that kind of stuff?" "But if you have enough money, the laws don't apply to you

The Americans had been on top for a very long time, at least by recent historical standards. They were due to be overtaken. Whether by the Russians or the Chinese, or both

And yet a man with nothing to live for is a powerful man indeed. Perhaps

Most of what they do is legal because they paid off the lawmakers to make it legal. But some of it's not. But they got money and jobs and lawyers and lobbyists and politicians in their pockets, and so nobody touches them. Same with the good folks at the Rebel Yell.

You can't command men in battle if they like you

But a dictator doesn't need supporters, he just needs followers

the parlance of the perception management field, the world had firmly entered the "gripper" stage, where the majority of people embraced as true everything they were told. It was far easier to accomplish this than most would care or dare to believe. It was easy to manipulate people. Folks had been doing it pretty much forever with results that had taken the world right to the edge of destruction.

Fame and influence are both often fickle and localized.

He was popular with his constituency and his district had been redrawn to make him election-proof.