Quotes About Influence

The industry had realized you could create the impression of controversy simply by asking questions

Many years later, the right wing continued to lambast Sagan well after the man was dead, while Seitz's attack on nuclear winter was reprised by Rush Limbaugh in the 1990s and by novelist Michael Crichton in the 2000s.110 What was going on? The answer is that the right-wing turn against science had begun.

key attribute of the period was that power did not reside in the hands of those who understood the climate system, but rather in political, economic, and social institutions that had a strong

assumptions are not perceived as such."98 They are so embedded as to go unrecognized as assumptions, and this is most likely to occur in homogeneous communities.

It wasn't the Sierra Club that tried to pressure the National Academy of Sciences over the 1983 Carbon Dioxide Assessment; it was officials from the Department of Energy under Ronald Reagan. It wasn't Environmental Defense that worked with Bill Nierenberg to alter the Executive Summary of the 1983 Acid Rain Peer Review Panel; it was the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. And it was the Wall Street Journal spreading the attack

We take it for granted that great individuals—Gandhi, Kennedy, Martin Luther King—can have great positive impacts on the world. But we are loath to believe the same about negative impacts—unless the individuals are obvious monsters like Hitler or Stalin. But small numbers of people can have large, negative impacts, especially if they are organized, determined, and have access to power.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.

It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.

He's nine. It's my job to protect him. He'll understand why when he's older." "Or else he'll blame you for it," my father suggests. "Don't make the mistake of choosing for him.

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

I have seen in the most significant of circumstances, that some little thing always decides great events.

It is astonishing what power words have over men.

in this life we are either kings or pawns emperors and fools

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

In this life, we are either kings or pawns, Emperors or fools

I love power like a musician loves music.

Men are ruled by toys

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest

Give me good mothers and I will give you a good nation.

C'est avec des hochets que l'on mène les hommes." Napoléon Bonaparte à propos de la légion d'honneur, qu'il institua en 1802.

Men of genius are meteors intended to burn to light their century

Montre-moi une famille de lecteurs, et je te montrerai les gens qui bougent le monde.

The men who have changed the world never succeeded by winning over the powerful, but always by stirring the masses. The first method is a resort to intrigue and only brings limited result. The latter is the course of genius and changes the face of the world.

L'ambition de dominer sur les esprits est la plus forte de toutes les passions.