Quotes About Influence

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Didn't Gandalf say "With great power comes great responsibility"? (If it wasn't Gandalf, maybe it was Thomas Jefferson. Or Spider-Man's uncle.)

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.

Never mistake the power of influence

The reality is that China is a much stronger power today, because the economic dimension has been added to the military and strategic one.

Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.

Each of us has the power and responsibility to become a rainbow in the clouds.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.

The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power.

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.

Appearance is a type of power.

good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

I learned the power of storytelling and the responsibility that people with influence have to speak out

When you have real power you don't threaten. People know what your capabilities are.