Quotes About Influence

Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely

Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.

A man who does not like power will suffer from its cruelty.

You have to realize that modern power, is nothing but a concept in the mind of the one who's under the power. And once you realize this, you realize that authority is indeed an illusion.

Most people throw away their personal power... If you want to know where, look at who and what you hate, blame, resent, and envy.

Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it.

Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics.

Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.

My question is whether America can overcome the fatal arrogance of power.

You want power-either because you've already had a taste of it and want more, or because you've been made to feel powerless for too long.

I can all have all the money in the world, hold all the power, or be worshiped like a god but all are meaningless without love.

You can't write novels without a touch of paranoia. I'm paranoid as an act of good citizenship, concerned about what the powerful people are up to.

Those who do not know the danger of wielding power will, before long, be ruled by it.

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.

I know there are powers I can't discern and things that bend and shape us that we cannot see.

And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.

The only thing that powerful men feared above all else was a loss of that power.

The only thing more compelling than love is power.

You like it. Knowing things about people. It makes you feel powerful.

These programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

Power like no other...

The more power you have, the less you can truly say. That's the irony.

Power is the ability to control people or things. So, unless you learn to control your own self first, how would you be able to influence anybody else? Now, doesn't that apply to all of us?