Quotes About Influence

The same recipe that makes individuals rich makes countries powerful. Let the nerds keep their lunch money, and you rule the world.

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those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

It has been said, "It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

Each type of pseudo-populism comes into being to improve or save its respective adherents from the absence of a moral or social framework, which means that even if we don't understand them fully, we are expected to place our faith in them. Although these pseudo-populist organizations are relatively small, they manage to influence governments, invoke terror, and control large sums of capital.

subcultures are liable to influence extensively the everyday lives of participants in practice, and that, more often than not, this concentrated involvement will last years rather than months

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.

Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.

Once we have power, we shall never again give it up, unless we are carried out as corpses from our offices.

The people who influence our presidents matter.

Here, too, are some freaks who did harm in their own way. They have names not like Mao and Che and Fidel and the other usual suspects who the world already knows too well, but names like Crowley, Duranty, Hay, Reich, Benjamin, Alinsky, Millett, the Frankfurt School—more elusive targets off the radar, and who the world should know more about, at the least because they serve as subtle (or not so subtle) markers and cautionary tales of the consequences of these ideas.

Without Nebuchadnezzar's conquest and deportation, Judaism as we know it, and therefore Christianity and Islam in their turn, could never have come to be.

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

The rich are different from you and me: they have more influence.

What Joe Hamilton lacked more than anything else in the world was some one to kick him. Many a man who might have lived decently and become a fairly respectable citizen has gone to the dogs for the want of some one to administer a good resounding kick at the right time. It is corrective and clarifying.

No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.

Thrasymachus said it was just a word invented by the victors to rule the losers. Like, we won the war; now we make the laws.

Chrissy turned to me, leaned over, and gave me a peck on the cheek. "What's that for?" I asked. "For being a man I can look up to without lying on my back.

You don't buy a Supreme Court judge," Max said. "Nobody ever has.

Chrissy let go and poured herself a cup of coffee. She didn't light a cigarette. I'd been trying to get her to stop. I try to be a good influence on my clients. Don't kill anyone else and please stop smoking.

Our prejudices and self-interest shape the world into what we want it to be, or fear it is.

Super gun,' can you imagine?" Karl Walter would muse more than two decades later. Shaking his head, he chuckled. "You can't buy that kind of attention, not for $50 million, not for $100 million.