Quotes About Influence

Amanda was in the forefront of my

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.

The hearts of the noble may be turned [by entreaty].

Surely these things lie on the knees of the gods.

A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, each at an interval of three hundred years and all three from the same region, were, politically speaking, the Archimedean screws of their age, at each epoch a Thought which found its fulcrum in the self-interest of mankind.

Power is action, and the elective principle is discussion.There is no policy, no statesmanship possible where discussion is permanent.

A husband who submits to his wifes yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A womans influence ought to be entirely concealed.

And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

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.

I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense.

Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.

Mon père m'a donné un cœur, mais vous l'avez fait battre.

Unluckily, Governments cannot be enlightened, and a Government which regards itself as a diffuser of light is the least open to enlightenment.

Women always persuade men they have made into sheep that they are lions with a will of iron.

We women never care about anything that no one else will take.

The rout, that dreary review of fashionable fineries, that parade of well-dressed self-infatuations, is one of those English inventions currently mechanifying the other nations. England seems determined to see the entire world bored just as she is, and just as bored as she.

Give a Paris woman at bay four-and-twenty hours, and she will overthrow a ministry.

He recognized the world for what it is - a place where laws and morality have no power over the rich - and he saw in wealth the ultima ratio mundi.