Quotes About Influence

Still, I shouldered part of the blame, maybe because it gave me some sense of control in an uncontrollable situation.

Seems that control-over-animals thing doesn't work so well with the animals we really need control over." "No kidding, huh?" I said.

I don't know whether it's a personality clash or simply a product of the times, where women have so little power that they wield it against one another with unnecessary vigor.

It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.

His talent was to express his readers' most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper.

Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

Protestors can have a big impact, but in the end it's governments that reshape the world.

Talvez os selvagens nunca abandonem o poder - afirmou Philip com ar de desalento. - Talvez a cobiça nunca deixe de pesar mais nos conselhos dos poderosos que a sabedoria; talvez o medo nunca deixe de vencer a compaixão na mente dum homem com uma espada empunhada.

A fool was just a fool, but a fool in the White House was the most dangerous person in the world.

Carla had never before realized how much she had been protected by politicians, newspapermen, and lawyers. Without them, she saw now, the government could do anything it liked, even kill people.

Everything is ultimately the Prime Minister's fault', said Lloyd. 'That's what it means to be the leader

Los manifestantes pueden causar un gran impacto, pero al final son los gobiernos los que remodelan el mundo.

The old men were still running the country. The politicians who had caused millions of deaths were now celebrating, as if they had done something wonderful.

There's a saying: If you owe a hundred dollars, the bank has you in its power; but if you owe a million dollars, you have the bank in your power.

How exciting to be at the center of power." "It is exciting, but strangely enough it doesn't feel like the center of power. In a democracy the president is subject to the voters." "But surely he doesn't just do what the public wants." "Not exactly, no. President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.

He had quoted Lenin: 'He who controls Berlin, controls Germany; and who controls Germany, controls Europe.

El presidente Wilson dice que un líder debe tratar a la opinión pública del mismo modo en que un marinero se aprovecha del viento, utilizándolo para impulsar la nave en una dirección u otra, pero nunca intentando ir directamente contra él.

It's increasing the pressure on the Big Mules

I've met the people who run Alabama. Believe me, they're not that smart.

en política, la memoria podía alargarse mucho.

If you want to change the world, then foreign relations is the field in which you can do the most good – or evil.

People change'. Weak women change to please men, Lili thought.

So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people." "That's democracy." Gus smiled. "A terrible way to run a country, but every other system is worse.

There was much talk about why the prime minister had brought back such a troublesome and unpredictable colleague, and the consensus was that he preferred to have Churchill inside the tent spitting out.