Quotes About Influence

Americans on the average do not trust intellectuals, but they are cowed by power and stunned by celebrity.

I pitied the French for their naïveté in believing they had to visit a country in order to exploit it. Hollywood was much more efficient, imagining the countries it wanted to exploit.

Isn't that what education is all about? Getting the student to sincerely say what the teacher wants to hear? Keep that in mind.

Although every country thought itself superior in its own way, was there ever a country that coined so many "super" terms from the federal bank of its narcissism, was not only superconfident but also truly superpowerful, that would not be satisfied until it locked every nation of the world into a full nelson and made it cry Uncle Sam?

Not to own the means of production can lead to premature death, but not to own the means of representation is also a kind of death.

You tried to play the game, okay? But they run the game. You don't run anything. That means you can't change anything. Not from the inside. When you got nothing, you got to change things from the outside.

The word that identified what we did not possess was "money," . . . The other word was "votes," so that together "money votes" was "open sesame" to the deep caverns of the American political system.

I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit. Gentlemen,

Politics is always personal, my dear, she said. That's what makes it deadly.

I had won the argument, but somehow, as in our college days, he had won the audience.

All this time I kept my gaze fixed on hers, an enormously difficult task given the gravitational pull exerted by her cleavage. While I was critical of many things when it came to so-called Western civilization, cleavage was not one of them. The Chinese might have invented gunpowder and the noodle, but the West had invented cleavage, with profound if underappreciated implications.

Like a shark who must keep swimming to live, a politician—which was what the General had become—had to keep his lips constantly moving.

What was it like to live in a time when one's fate was not war, when one was not led by the craven and the corrupt, when one's country was not a basket case kept alive only through the intravenous drip of American aid?

Not to own the means of production can lead to premature death, but not to own the means of representation is also a kind of death. For if we are represented by others, might they not, one day, hose our deaths off memory's laminated floor?

As for the Vietnamese who stayed in France, French culture had chewed on them since they were in Vietnam. By the time they came to France, they were already, like certain species of cheese, quite soft and easily digestible, qualities inherited by their ideologically pasteurized children.

was there ever a country that coined so many "super" terms from the federal bank of its narcissism, was not only superconfident but also truly superpowerful, that would not be satisfied until it locked every nation of the world into a full nelson and made it cry Uncle Sam?

It was Didion crossed with Chandler as prophesied by Faulkner and shot by Welles.

Crianças precisam de orientação e roteiros morais, beneficiando-se imensamente com o exemplo de adultos que falam a verdade e agem com força moral.

Decision Making is impacted more by ones Altitude rather than ones attitude !

Everyone has inner drives.... hence we must be careful what we are Driven by !

R?ng nh?ng Æ°á»›c mÆ¡ ch? có quy?n n?ng ??i vá»›i cái ??u c?a riêng ta. NhÆ°ng ti?n có quy?n n?ng ??i vá»›i cái ??u c?a ng??i khác.

Unheralded we came into this world. Unheralded we will go out. But while we are in this world, we do such deeds that even if this generation does not remember, the next generation cannot forget.

The truth is that human beings like to be ruled. They will talk and talk about freedom, but they are afraid of it. Overpowered by me, they were safe, and happy.

In the painting I saw, in the books I read, I recalled her, for she her had in many ways been the making of me.