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Quotes About Influence

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
~ Benjamin Spock
It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy
~ Barack Obama
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
~ William Cobbett
People have the power to redeem the work of fools.
~ Patti Smith
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
~ Bertrand Russell
Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.
~ Brian Houston
They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
~ Lord Byron
Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
~ Thomas Sowell
When you open up your mouth, everything of God comes out and it commands attention, it commands change. I'm talking about the power that's inside of you.
~ Ludacris
Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.
~ Condoleezza Rice
The love of power is the demon of mankind.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power
~ C. S. Lewis
But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.
~ Lincoln Steffens
Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
~ Robert Greene
The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.
~ Sharon Stone
Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.
~ Bernie Sanders
Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
~ Heloise
Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
~ John Steinbeck
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
~ Edward Abbey