Quotes About Influence

He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.

If somebody else is making the rules for you, no matter how good the payoff is for you, you're being conned.

Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Will is wish, and liberty is power.

The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

Bill Gore from Goretex was a very strong influence because he was one of the first larger companies to experiment with freedom in the workplace.

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing in its evil influence and control over America and the entire world.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

I think that the United States should be the leader, not only militarily. We need to stand for freedom; we need to stand for justice in the world, because there aren't too many countries that do.

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.