Quotes About Influence

Writing is a virus once caught never to be cured.

On the security circuit in the Middle East, reputation is everything. If you don't know someone, they're probably not worth knowing.

Children will copy everything from adults by example.

Not everyone believes in fame during his/her lifetime. But being a good memory and a good example to everybody is worth more than what fame can offer.

Politicians are heroes too. You can even find their names in major roads and highways.

Politics is everywhere. Even in family relationships there is politics.

The world will remember you for your simplicity and humility!

Unfold your inner strength by setting a good example to others. Spread the good works in anyway possible.

You may not be known or popular all over the world, but by doing honorable acts and decent gestures each day you are already famous.

We are all citizens of history.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

If you save your breath, I feel like a man you can manage.

Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Dangerous things, books." "Look what it did to your brain.

The CCP seemed to be following a dictum attributed to Stalin: 'Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?

the CCP views the France China Foundation as its foremost avenue of influence on France's elites. In this respect, it is similar to Britain's 48 Group Club.

The Chinese Communist Party is present in all major enterprises in China and manipulates or directly controls their decisions to achieve political and strategic aims.

Controlling people's thoughts obviates the need to control their behaviour and the party has striven constantly to implant patriotic thoughts into the minds of the people.

The combination of close personal relationships, coupled with threats of punishment, is the standard Chinese modus operandi. Beijing hoped to turn Australia into a 'second France', 'a western country that would dare to say "no" to America'.

The reasons why so many people in the West downplay or deny the threat posed by the CCP is a theme of this book. One reason is of course financial interest. As Upton Sinclair put it, 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

a common political mistake in the West, the belief that it's always an advantage for ambassadors to have long experience in China. Governments forget that, in the process of getting to know China and some of its powerful players, many succumb to Beijing's subtle influence techniques, so that an ambassador may in practice serve as a conduit for Beijing's messaging back to the Western capital.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.