Quotes About Influence

I can smell her all over you. You need some help taming her? Let me break her in for you.

Great power does not corrupt a person, it only brings their true self into the light

Power doesn't corrupt. Power brings what we are to the top, is all," I said, thinking of all the ugly I had fought against. "Be it good or bad.

Una persona no puede hacer nada, Rache, pero dos pueden mover el mundo.

You want some advice?" he asked. "No." "Good. Listen anyway. Looks to me like you've become the leader here. Accept it. Know it comes with a price. People will be doing things for you. Don't be selfish. Let them.

Men," she said, rolling her eyes as she sat before her screen again. "Don't they realize that if we wanted to rule the world, we could?

A struggle in the sphere of ideology is the prelude to a political struggle, and naturally develops into a struggle for power.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We're midway through the loom, that's the present, and what we do casts the thread in a particular direction, and the picture of the tapestry changes accordingly. When we begin to to try to make a picture pleasing to us and to those who come after, then perhaps you can say that we have seized history.

All the great moments of history have taken place inside people's heads.

The one who tells the stories rules the world.

history was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looking — an unknowable infinity of events, which although out of control, controlled everything.

Art should be used to change things.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government

Power wasn't a matter of job titles, after all. Power was a matter of vision, persuasiveness, freedom of movement, fame, influence. The figurehead stands at the front, after all, pointing the way.

There have been mass delusions larger than this," I said, "following a fanatic leader.

She dismissed his puzzled frown with a wave.—We're deeper than we can see. There are other people down inside us doing things. We get carried along by what they do.

in certain senses the transnationals were expressions of these nations—extensions of their power into the rest of the world, in a way that reminded Sax of what little he knew of the imperial and colonial systems that had preceded them. Frank had said something like that: colonialism had never died, he used to declare, it just changed names and hired local cops. We're all colonies of the transnats.

People have ideas. They live in their ideas, do you understand? And those ideas, whatever they happen to be, make all the difference.

America takes her writers too seriously.

even the straightest Of issues looks pretty oblique When a movement turns into a clique...

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth

Gurus Enable you to see new things. The trouble with Gurus is that you can rarely see beyond them.