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Quotes About Influence

We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.
~ Ngugi wa Thiong'o
However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power
~ Kate Millett
Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.
~ Elizabeth May
Music can change the world because it can change people.
~ Bono
A drop of ink may make a million think.
~ George Gordon Byron
I too belong to an OBC caste but I have never used my community to get power
~ Narendra Modi
The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
~ Thomas Paine
Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.
~ Saul Alinsky
A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.
~ N. Scott Momaday
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
~ Barbara Tuchman
Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
~ Booker T. Washington
I was put in this world to change it.
~ Kathe Kollwitz
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.
~ Sam Harris
The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.
~ John Lennon
Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.
~ Bryan Adams
Abuse of power comes as no surprise
~ Jenny Holzer
The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.
~ Mary Brave Bird
I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
~ Catullus
Power is knowing your past.
~ Spike Lee
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
~ Ariel Dorfman
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
~ Henry Kissinger
If you put good apples into a bad situation, you'll get bad apples.
~ Philip G. Zimbardo
If you believe in the power of words, you can bring about physical changes in the universe.
~ N. Scott Momaday