Quotes About Influence

No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations

In government, the scum rises to the top.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.

Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.