Quotes About Influence

When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with Power.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.

No one man should have all that power.

I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?

Socialism, like Christianity destroyed itself to gain power

A cross without offense to the world is a cross without power in the world.

Real results will emerge when we realize the power of combined individual actions and voices to effect change.

While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.

That is enough to win a three-way presidential race. If young people understand they have the numbers and they have the power to come out and turn this election on its head.

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power

Radio helps DJs break into a whole different audience. Radio has so much power. And that's my mission: to not only break into the EDM audience, but to break also into the mainstream audience.

Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.

Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.