Quotes About Influence

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.

(On Western civilization) I think it would be a good idea.

A world where players have enough power to block everyone else's initiatives but no one has the power to impose its preferred course of action is a world where decisions are not taken, taken too late, or watered down to the point of ineffectiveness. Without

PROPENSITY OF THE YOUNG TO QUESTION AUTHORITY AND challenge power is now amplified by the More and Mobility revolutions. Not only are there more people than ever under thirty, but they have more—prepaid calling-cards, radios, TVs, cellphones, computers, and access to the Internet as well as to travel and communication possibilities with others like them at home and around the world. They are also more mobile than ever.

He who is active in politics strives for power, either as a means in serving other ends, ideal or egoistic, or as 'power for power's sake,' that is, in order to enjoy the prestige-feeling that power gives.

Power is the ability to direct or privent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals.

The decay of power is changing the world.

Specifically it is about how power—the capacity to get others to do, or to stop doing, something—is undergoing a historic and world-changing transformation.

A world where players have enough power to block everyone else's initiatives but no one has the power to impose its preferred course of action is a world where decisions are not taken, taken too late, or watered down to the point of ineffectiveness.

To put it simply, power no longer buys as much as it did in the past. In the twenty-first century, power is easier to get, harder to use—and easier to lose.

Quién está arriba y quién está abajo va a importar cada vez menos en un mundo en el que los que llegan a la cima no permanecen mucho tiempo en ella y cada vez pueden hacer menos cosas con el poder que tienen.

La degradación del poder ha cambiado las condiciones y las posibilidades del conflicto y ha aumentado la influencia de los actores pequeños, no estatales y no tradicionales,

somos más vulnerables a las malas ideas y los malos líderes.

It is the effectiveness of that power that is lagging, not its potential.

la respuesta a la pregunta de cómo adquirir y retener el máximo poder posible era evidente: haciéndose grande.

cuando las fronteras se vuelven porosas y la población gobernada —o controlada— es más móvil, a las organizaciones establecidas se les complica mantener su dominio.

But on the political front, the Golden Straitjacket narrows the political and economic policy choices of those in power to relatively tight parameters. . . .

opinaba Weber, la clave para ejercer el poder en la sociedad moderna era la organización burocrática.

siempre estamos, consciente o inconscientemente, midiendo nuestro poder: hasta dónde podemos lograr que otros hagan lo que queremos o evitar que nos impongan cierta conducta.

El poder nunca existe de manera aislada; siempre involucra a otros actores y se ejerce en relación con ellos.

La fuerza, o la amenaza de emplear la fuerza, es el instrumento contundente a través del cual se ejerce el poder en situaciones extremas.

Casi todos los senadores, diputados y gobernadores que Hugo apoya ganan. Todo apunta, pues, a que tiene las vías despejadas para gobernar sin cortapisas.