Quotes About Influence

We must not try to become large in order to become powerful. We must become powerful in order to become large.

Because the real worship is not one man, one vote, it's one man, one dollar. Commerce drives democracy, not vice versa.

humans are much more like sheep than cats. They're easily led and they don't look where they're going until it's too late.

You know, women used to rule the world until they got men to do it for them.

Freedom means the right to choose how you want to live and it means the right to participate in governmental and economic decisions. You're right, there is a confusion between political freedom and material benefits. But, to me, freedom means being able to shape your environment, working with others. We're all responsible to each other in my concept of freedom.

Corruption is like a lily—brush against it, however lightly, and some of the pollen smears on you. Therefore choose your friends and your employers wisely.

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.

Being very small and very young, the only power Matilda had over anyone in her family was brain-power.

All grown-ups appear as giants to small children. But Headmasters (and policemen) are the biggest giants of all and acquire a marvellously exaggerated stature.

Matilde non rispose. Rimase in silenzio, ribollendo di rabbia. Sapeva che odiare i propri genitori non era una bella cosa, ma non riusciva ad impedirselo. I libri le avevano mostrato la vita sotto una luce che loro ignoravano. Se soltanto avessero letto un romanzo di Dickens, o di Kipling, avrebbero scoperto che imbrogliare la gente e guardare la televisione non è tutto.

A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy.

When I was twelve, my mother said to me, 'I've entered you for Marlborough and Repton. Which would you like to go to?' Both were famous Public Schools, but that was all I knew about them. 'Repton,' I said. 'I'll go to Repton.' It was an easier word to say than Marlborough. 'Very well,' my mother said. 'You shall go to Repton.

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

people are rarely persuaded by arguments, but more often by experiences.

It is as if the smallest amount of light is infinitely more powerful than massive amounts of dark.

It is your responsibility to stop listening to voices that hinder your ongoing growth and maturity.

We surrender the outcomes because we cannot control how people are going to respond to us and our work in the world.

We broke Batman's back. We killed Superman.

So what was this place in which people were rewarded for working out the answer the teacher wanted them to give, rather than the right answer?

The Watersons, Frost and Fire (1965); The Young Tradition, So Cheerfully Round (1967); Peter Bellamy, Merlin's Isle of Gramarye (1972).

John Renbourn, Sir John Alot of Merrie Englandes Musyk Thyng & Ye Grene Knyghte (1968); Shirley Collins, The Power of the True Love Knot (1968); Shirley and Dolly Collins, Anthems in Eden (1969). The Early Music movement as we know it today began in practice

From the earliest beginnings of Lyndon Johnson's political life—from his days at college when he had captured control of campus politics—his tactics had consistently revealed a pragmatism and a cynicism that had no discernible limits.

Nothing he has ever done has been tainted by legality [Robert Moses quoting an anecdote about himself].