Quotes About Influence

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.

Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

For know that no one is free, except Zeus.

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Intervene globally, lose freedom locally.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

Freedom exists only with power.

A fool is very dangerous when in power.

The real measure of our power is the freedom and opportunity we create for others.

The well being of democracies regardless of their type and status is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary.

We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers - that is not freedom of the press.

The American experience influenced my understanding of individuality, basic human rights, freedom of expression and the rights and responsibilities of citizens.

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

What you call freedom is still nothing but choosing how to steer straight into the heart of what chooses you.

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.