Quotes About Influence

Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quemquam Posse volunt.]

Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.

Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers.

Without any doubt, I am striving for power.

I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it.

They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.

The power of the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it.

The only power an actor has is the ability to say "no."

Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.

We design our lives through the power of choices.

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

The depositary of power is always unpopular.

Habit is necessary to give power.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.

The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington?