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Quotes About Influence

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~ Eoin Colfer
Power is intoxicating.
~ Sho Baraka
Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.
~ David Brooks
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
~ William Hazlitt
What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.
~ Eric Cantona
I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.
~ Ehud Olmert
To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
Power always brings with it responsibility.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
~ Franz Grillparzer
There are lots of conflicts going on in the Middle East. It is unclear as to which country will emerge, if any, as the dominant or hegemonic power in the Middle East.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
The more people in need, the better the Democrat Party is, in their minds, 'cause that's their source of power.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.
~ Ouida
There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.
~ Stanley Bing
I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.
~ Rachel Maddow
Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.
~ Gary Hamel
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
~ Tom Stoppard
power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
~ Gertrude Atherton
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
~ William Hazlitt
Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't think people in power have the potential to do anything like that to me. I feel as though as long as our music is available, folks are going to hear it.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.
~ Spike Lee
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
~ Gloria Steinem
The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing