Quotes About Influence

Cabinet Minister: "The trouble with the Germans is that they are like a lot of sheep; they will follow anybody."] Oh, it is far worse than that, they are carnivorous sheep!

the result will require that the U.S.A. and the United Kingdom should exert all their influence to get Russia to act moderately and sensibly and not to flout world opinion.

I have made more bishops than anyone since St. Augustine.

I had no idea in those days of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples.

British influence is healthy and kindly, and makes for the general happiness and welfare of mankind.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature. I see that a speaker at the weekend said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

How much easier it is to join bad companions than to shake them off!

But the more firmly Russia can establish herself in the saddle now the farther she will ride in the future and the more precarious our holdfast will become.

The almost complete exclusion of religion in all its forms from the political sphere had left Nationalism the most powerful moulding instrument of mankind in temporal affairs.

Ingratitude towards their great men," says Plutarch, "is the mark of strong peoples.

I feared the wish was father to the thought.

The status of George Washington is honored in the heart of London. His civic and military virtues play their part in the education of our youth, just in the same way as the eloquence of Burke and Chatham have influenced the American mind.

It has been well said that wherever there are three Jews it will be found that there are two Prime Ministers and one leader of the Opposition.

The tail of China is large and will not be wagged.

Some at least of its impulse came from the Admiralty.

I lived in fact from mouth to hand.

As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism developed from Fascism.

At seventeen we imitate everything except ourselves.

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Each human act has countless causes. The author works to reveal these causes.

If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.

Quién de nosotros sabría admirar a los grandes genios, si en la escuela no se le hubiese puesto bien en la cabeza que son grandes genios?

Oy, stil – tiranlar?n aleti!

I wished, first of all, to buy my way into people's good graces with my book so that, in subsequent personal contact, I would find the ground already prepared, and, I reasoned, if I succeeded in implanting in their soules a favorable image of me, this image would in turn shape me; and so, willy-nilly, I would become mature.