Quotes About Influence

Power is never measured by what you can give but by what you can actually take!

There is this power that comes with being famous.

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a member of this group has no clout with the state.

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

Volumes in the series on Lyndon Johnson, including Master of the Senate and The Path Power, describe how Johnson created resources out of nothing and built a substantial power base.

Donald [Trump] has had a long career of using great wealth and power trying to bully others.

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.

Most people, 95% of people, are good people. Its the 5% who get seduced by power.

Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.

The difference between men and women is that women seek power in order to address issues, while men address issues in order to seek power.

Whence has come thy lasting power.

The power of narrative sort of defines something forever and ever.

Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that power, and even to be aware of that power.

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.

Where there's fear, there is power.

Harness the power of peers.

Power interrupts. Uninterruptible power interrupts absolutely.

Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.