Quotes About Influence

If she had just asked! But no. She pushes me into a corner where there's no choice." "It's what women do: weave the web, pull the strings, herd into the corner. It's their only power. Unless they're seers.

He could send his words trilling into the roof corners or scuttling through floor rushes.

You can never walk away. They'll always find you. You matter for your blood. And your mind." "Which you made." "To keep you safe.

To hear you talk is like hearing him talk when he first become king.

Some wield money like a blunt instrument, bludgeoning their way to what they want. Others hold it up like a flashing light. Look! See how important I am! I prefer to employ it as a lubricant, to ease the wear and tear of daily living.

Holding secrets, her mother said, made a man feel mighty.

How had she managed to get inside me, slip between my ribs and rest against my heart without me feeling it?

Most women learned very young to play the roles expected of them. Girls' games were built on the notion: play Mom, play nurse, play teacher. They played and played and played until they learned to inhabit the roles.

She had sworn to be totem and token to her people, to light their path, not darken it.

If a lord was frightening, a noble lady was terrifying.

If she used weapons the way she used words, no one would stand against her; they'd have no idea where the stroke would fall next.

The freer man believes he is, the easier it is to indoctrinate him.

Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.

The Gospels and the Communist Manifesto are on the wane; the world's future lies in the power of Coca-Cola and pornography.

Revolutionary intellectuals have the historic mission of inventing the vocabulary and the themes for the next tyranny.

De statistiek is het werktuig van wie afziet van het begrijpen om te kunnen manipuleren.

The modern world resulted from the confluence of three independent causal series: the demographic expansion, democratic propaganda, the industrial revolution.

El Occidente habrá muerto, cuando deje de ser la presencia de Grecia en un alma cristiana.

La política sabia es el arte de vigorizar la sociedad y de debilitar el Estado.

The effect of democratic rhetoric on taste is called disgust.

Entweder man gehört zur Nachkommenschaft Hegels, oder man gehört zur Nachkommenschaft Schopenhauers. Tertium non datur.

It is not the origin of religions, or their cause, which requires explanation, but rather the cause and origin of their eclipse and neglect.

La técnica induce insidiosamente a convertir sus categorías reguladoras de la acción en categorías constitutivas de la realidad.

Authority is not delegating men, but procuring values.