Quotes About Influence

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

She was the product of her circumstances, of her time and place...

People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.

All that is old is not therefore necessarily excellent; all that is new is not despicable on that account alone. Let what is really meritorious be pronounced so by the candid judge after due investigation; blockheads alone are influenced by the opinion of others.

But what's important isn't the Magic, it's the heart of the wielder who uses it.

You shouldn't rely on others to help you determine what's good and what's bad. In no time at all, you'll simply be under someone else's control.

Since the day I first met you, you've given me so many precious things. If I hadn't met you, I would never have become the person I am today.

I'm who I am now because you've been with me.

At that time I would read passages of Father's books or a newspaper article that I was certain he had read because I wanted to follow a trail he had taken.

Can you become a man without becoming your father?

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

In the Great Hall of the Linz Library are the busts of Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, the greatest of our thinkers, in comparison with whom the British, the French and the Americans have nothing to offer...It is on the foundation of Kant's theory of knowledge that Schopenhauer…conquered the pragmatism of GWF Hegel. I carried Schopenhauer's works with me throughout the whole of the First World War. Schopenhauer...has been far surpassed by Nietzsche.

Nimeni nu pune mare pre? pe faptul c? un preot oarecare se exprim? îin favoarea lui Dumnezeu. Asta-i meseria lui, nu? Dar când matematicieni si oameni de ?tiin?? ca Pasca, Newton ?i Swedenborg fac lucrul ?sta, adep?ii "Tat?lui nostru" devin aten?i.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Show your power by appearing powerless.

That boy is your weakness.

The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate. They will find the bit and the bridle that fits your mouth and will make you yield.

I kissed him on the mouth, and then I threatened to kiss him some more if he didn't do exactly what I wanted.

It's funny how you get under his skin." At first, I'm not sure I heard him right. I almost ask whom he's talking about, because I can't quite believe he's admitting that high and mighty Cardan is affected by anything. "Like a splinter?" I say. "Of iron. No one else bothers him quite the way that you do.

Whoever controls the king, controls the kingdom

You will need me to sweet-talk the door.

If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.

We get power by taking it.

Books were something that happened to readers. Readers were the victims of books.