Quotes About Influence

And in the world of power you have to follow the rules of power, and whether you like it or not, one of these rules is to brag. You must impress others, show them their place. You have to become the biggest gorilla in the pack, the alpha male who is followed by everyone else.

This concludes the story of my youth, Your Honor. I hope that you can see that I have been swayed since my birth by forces that are poorly countered with reason.

Nosferatu is the daddy of modern American sex.

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

Sooner or later, almost every problem in the European working world is either branded with the label "Americanization" or blamed on the culprit of Americanization—or both.

In current German usage, the concepts "Americanization" (Ameri-kanisierung) and "American conditions" (amerikanische Verhaltnisse; amerikanische Bedingungen) almost invariably stand for something negative, bad, and above all threatening, something that absolutely has to be avoided or—if the European patient has already contracted this ailment—somehow needs to be alleviated or diminished.

Of course in Germany, too, there have been occasional efforts to keep the German language clear of foreign (meaning, as a rule, English and French) influences. 77 And, of course, there are still organizations in Germany, like the Verein Deutsche Sprache e.V. (German Language Association), that have made a mission out of protecting the German language from contamination by American English.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

Por la corrupción del lenguaje empiezan otras muchas corrupciones..." "By the corruption of language many other corruptions begin ...

A poem, novel or play that does not in some sense relate to previous texts is, in fact, literally unimaginable.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Give me the life of the boy whose mother is nurse, seamstress, washerwoman, cook, teacher, angel, and saint, all in one, and whose father is guide, exemplar, and friend. No servants to come between. These are the boys who are born to the best fortune.

1790: Mayer Amschel Rothschild states, "Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.

Back to 1815, this is the year Nathan Mayer Rothschild makes his famous statement, "I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply.

Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler used his paper as a megaphone to promote eugenics, and universities such as Yale, Stanford, and Harvard bestowed their academic credibility to the cause.

We may feel like victims but wonder if we are possibly coconspirators. At the very least, we selected a partner with these faults. Might we have also permitted these faults or even fostered them?

A pure breed of steed is steered sheerly by the shadow of the lash, but even the spur cannot stir a mount of trash.

Alexander's mere name and the fame of his feats raised rulers and realms across virtually the whole world. And those who kept control of even the slightest slice of his huge heritage were reckoned most renowned.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

By being published, any author's words cease to be his own, but rather belong to his reader.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

I am the government.