Quotes About Influence

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.

The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.

To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

One idea lights a thousand candles.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

The power of thought, of idea, is incommensurable, is immeasurable. The world is dominated by thought.

Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much more fun than making others feel worse. Making others feel better generally makes us feel better

What journalism is really about-it's to monitor power and the centres of power.

If a man has enough power, he can speak softly and everyone will listen

And the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power in fewer and fewer hands.

Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.

Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.

Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.