Quotes About Influence

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet they can't all be Trotskyites and traitors.

...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

The bigger the government, the greater the corruption

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.

Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.

Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.

If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.

A wise prince will seek means by which his subjects will always and in every possible condition of things have need of his government, and then they will always be faithful to him.

In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice - meaning, they tell you what justice is.

Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

When the state or federal government controls the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.

Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

I feel like the government is more evil than most corporations.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.

There is a government within the government who controll this and i do not controll it

Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.

Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.