Quotes About Influence

No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

One has no notion of him [William Cobbett] as making use of a fine pen, but a great mutton-fist; his style stuns readers…. He is too much for any single newspaper antagonist; "lays waste" a city orator or Member of Parliament, and bears hard upon the government itself. He is a kind of fourth estate in the politics of the country.

Those who can command themselves command others.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

We are very much what others think of us . The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Understanding of men can be warped and their affections changed by operations upon their passions and prejudices.

It is said that to this day that educational establishment still bears the scars of their activities.

There is only one thing I wast to say about Ohio that has a political tinge, and that is that I think a mistake has been made of recent years in Ohio in failing to continue as our representatives the same people term after term. I do not need to tell a Washington audience, among whom there are certainly some who have been interested in legislation, that length of service in the House and in the Senate is what gives influence.

The COUNTRY is controlled by LAWS> LAWS are controlled by POLITICIANS> POLITICIANS are controlled by VOTERS> VOTERS are controlled by PUBLIC OPINION> PUBLIC OPINION is controlled by the MEDIA (News, Hollywood, Internet...) & EDUCATION so. whoever controls MEDIA & EDUCATION, controls the COUNTRY.

Concentrated power is bad" "(name of chapter)

Therefore we must give a certain character to our activities. . . . In short, the habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

They will preach what we want them to preach," said Hitler's memo. "If any priest acts differently, we will make short work of him. The task of the priest is to keep the Poles quiet, stupid, and dull-witted.

Hayek was never a popular author to the extent that everyone was reading him at the corner newsstand. But the Austrian refugee showed how the roots of Hitler's tyranny and the bases of Marxist collectivism were one and the same. His work had a profound influence on a generation of freedom loving young conservatives. Even

some have speculated that Moses was influenced by Atenism, or was perhaps even a believer. Thus, in the middle of the second millennium, the Egypt/Sinai area saw the advent of Western monotheism

The forces that drove Britain and the United States to control the world's shipping lanes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, respectively, first saw light of day in Greece's need to feed itself with imported wheat and barley.

In short, the Romans conquered most of their known world as much with the deeply institutionalized pen as with the sword, shield, and catapult.

In ancient societies, the law functioned as a two-edged sword; while standardizing procedure and bringing it out into the open, the law also concentrated power in those few who could read and write.

If you want to convince someone, target their System 1 with narrative, not their System 2 with facts and data.

Whoever is lord of Malacca has his hand on the throat of Venice.—Tomé

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you will have to win their hearts to have them work with you.

Old men are perhaps the most polished diplomats but youth changes the world.

There are twice as many governmental public-relations men in Washington as there are journalists.