Quotes About Influence

Cuando está demasiado concentrado, el poder engendra tiranía.

Similarly, the long-entrenched power of the major organized religions is decaying at a remarkably rapid pace.

Las respuestas a mis preguntas siempre han ido en la misma dirección: el poder es cada vez más débil, más transitorio, más limitado.

Gran parte de la clase media y hasta gente de la más alta alcurnia también simpatizan con el discurso regenerador de la moral pública que el líder disemina por todos los medios de comunicación.

toda empresa grande debe tener acceso e influencia con el gobierno, independientemente de quién esté a cargo del mismo.

Power is the ability to direct or prevent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals. Or, put differently, power is what we exercise over others that leads them to behave in ways they would not otherwise have behaved.

Concentración: controlar los organismos del Estado que limitan el poder del presidente,

if the future of power lies in disruption and interference, not management and consolidation, can we expect ever to know stability again?

Necesitas neutralizarlos por completo y por todos los medios posibles. —Hegemonía total. El presidente toma nota de ése y de otros tantos sabios consejos—

Un líder verdadero no consulta, ordena.

is how each of them is making power easier to get and harder to use or keep.

the form of citizen activism, global markets, and media scrutiny

The world will not alter for all your meddling.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

People can be induced to swallow anything, provided it is sufficiently seasoned with praise.

He said that woman is like the ivy-vine, Which, clinging to its oak, grows lush and tall, But, lacking that support, can't thrive at all.

That is the usual strain of all your kind; They must have every one as blind as they.

Good Heaven, friend, do not trouble yourself. He will be a clever man who catches me in this way. I know all the cunning tricks and subtle devices which women use to deceive us, and how one is fooled by their dexterity, and I have taken precautions against this mischance. She whom I am marrying possesses all the innocence which may protect my forehead from evil influence.

A lover pays his court where his heart has taken root; he aims at gaining every one's favour in that spot; and so as to have no one opposed to his flame, he endeavours to please the very house-dog.

The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

That's the trouble with this country, people keep messin' up each other's movies.

Carl Parker observes, if you took all the fools out of the Lege, it wouldn't be

If you think you are powerless, then you are