Quotes About Influence

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.

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.

The working class are more numerous than the ruling class, and stronger. They depend on us for everything. We provide their food and build their houses and make their clothes, and without us they die. They can't do anything unless we let them.

El general rebelde, Franco, había conseguido el respaldo de la Iglesia católica.

Quien controle Berlín controlará Alemania, y quien controle Alemania controlará Europa».

The working class are more numerous than the ruling class, and stronger. They depend on us for everything. We provide their food and build their houses and make their clothes, and without us they die. They can't do anything unless we let them. Always remember that.

Maud knew the proprietor of the Mail, Lord Northcliffe. Like all great press men, he really believed the drivel he published. 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.

The law makes no decisions. It has no will of its own. It's like a weapon, or a tool: it works for those who pick it up and use it.

Americans talked about voters the way Russians talked about Stalin: they had to be obeyed, right or wrong.

the consensus was that he preferred to have Churchill inside the tent spitting out.

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.

A clergyman can influence the mass of the people. If he preaches a sermon against the earl, or calls upon the saints to bring misfortune to the earl, people will begin to believe that the earl is cursed. Then they will discount his power, mistrust him, and expect all his projects to be doomed. It can be very hard for a nobleman to oppose a truly determined cleric. Look what happened to King Henry II after the murder of Thomas Becket.

There are no saints in politics. But imperfect people can still change the world for the better.

Este es nuestro país, y debemos tomar el control de él, tal y como han hecho los bolcheviques en Rusia

My fate is in the hands of two monarchs, Walter thought, the tsar and the emperor. One is foolish, the other geriatric; yet they control the destiny of Maud and me and countless millions more Europeans. What an argument against monarchy! He

Existe um ditado que diz: se você deve 100 dólares, está na palma da mão do banco; mas, se deve um milhão, é o banco que está na palma da sua mão.

You know politicians', Rosa said. 'They're sensitive as schoolgirls, and more vengeful.

Earl Roland had prospered in the last ten years—under Queen Isabella and, later, her son Edward III—and he wanted the world to know it, as rich and powerful men generally did. In

Han aplastado a la nobleza. —Pero también a la prensa que estaba en su contra.

who ruled the great region of Mercia after her husband died. She fortified towns and won battles.

PreoÈ›ii deÈ›ineau o putere care nu era întodeauna egalat? de cunoÈ™tinÈ›ele pe care le aveau.

Abbot Peter had come in to show him the way. Unarmed and defenseless, the abbot had instantly stopped the bloodshed, with nothing but the authority of his Church and the force of his goodness. That scene had inspired Philip all his life.

Grey quoted Gladstone, asking "whether, under the circumstances of the case, this country, endowed as it is with influence and power, would quietly stand by and witness the perpetration of the direst crime that ever stained the pages of history, and thus become participators in the sin?

The Americans encircle us. They have troops in Japan, South Korea, Guam, Singapore, and Australia. As well as that, the Philippines and Vietnam are friends of the US. The Americans did the same thing to the Soviet Union—they called it 'containment.' And in the end the Russian Revolution was strangled. We have to avoid the fate of the Soviets, but we won't do it at the UN. Sooner or later we will have to smash the ring.