Quotes About Influence

As government grows, its increased power to grant favors or inflict pain attracts more people who would abuse the system.

The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.

To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.

Power is as power does.

I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still strongly adhere.

The power of the corporate bureaucracy - the power of technostructure (a term that did not take off) - is something to which I still adhere.

The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.

As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.

All power corrupts but some must govern.

In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.

Content is an obstacle to the exercise of power.

The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.

The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

I told my manager, 'If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power?... Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.'

The word "influence" means the power to change or affect someone.

Money is just another word for power.

If people stop having secrets they stop having power.

I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States.

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

The more power that we have, the less human we are.