Quotes About Influence

Money is power in American politics. It always has been.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

No economic, political or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind

For we put the power in the people.

Girls Who Rocked the World is full of inspiring stories about young women who demonstrate that people of all ages have the power to create change in the world.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.

Nothing is more stylish than power.

One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?

One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch a century ago.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Man made God in his own image.

To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.