Quotes About Influence

We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

History is written by the winners.

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-Tung.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

What you do is your history. What you set in motion is your legacy.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

History belongs to the intercessors

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

History is neither written nor made without love or hate.

The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality.

Let's give the historians something to write about

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.