Quotes About Influence

I hate [slavery] because it deprives the republican example of its just influence in the world—enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites—causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.

Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." p 533

Ghosh trusted me to do whatever it is I would choose to do. That, too, is love. He'd been dead more than a quarter century and he was still teaching me about the trust that comes only from true love.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not." -Cutting for Stone

Apparently, Marx said that religion was the opium of the masses. It kept the oppressed from complaining or trying to change things.

What a bad idea it had been to give the Bible to anyone but priests, Ghosh thought. It made a preacher out of everybody.

Be ready. Be seated. See what courage sounds like. See how brave it is to reveal yourself in this way. But above all, see what it is to still live, to profoundly influence the lives of others after you are gone, by your words.

This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone. She

This is the covenant of water: that they're all linked inescapably by their acts of commission and omission, and no one stands alone.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument. —WILL ROGERS

There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

But two facts are clear: it is impossible to understand the Cuban Revolution without understanding Miami, and it is impossible to understand Miami without understanding the Cuban Revolution.

DESPITE THE INAUSPICIOUS BEGINNING OF the American Revolution's overtures to the Spanish-speaking world, Spain—the New World's oldest colonial power—opted to support the hemisphere's first anticolonial movement.

If Helen had the face that launched a thousand ships, Kelly would have made those guys invent aircraft carriers.

If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they're arguing.

As Harry Truman used to say: "If you can't convince them, confuse them.

If we communicate the vision behind our ideas, the purpose guiding our products, people will flock to us.

É mais fácil vencer quando todos querem que você vença. Quem não faz inimigos chega ao topo com mais facilidade. Randy Komisar

The more reasons we put on the table, the easier it is for people to discard the shakiest one. Once they reject one of our justifications, they can easily dismiss our entire case. That happened regularly to the average negotiators: they brought too many different weapons to battle. They lost ground not because of the strength of their most compelling point, but because of the weakness of their least compelling one.