Quotes About Influence

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.

There's nothing more paralysing or more likely to make people fall into a malaise of believing they are powerless than just hearing that everything's negative and everything's shot to bits. It's really important that we know we can change this planet for the better and that every single one of us, no matter how small we may feel, has that power.

The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.

Nobody is powerless.

The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.

Humans are powerless, and even in our exercise of free will, either the Universe is gonna get down with your plan, or it isn't.

You feel kind of powerless as a kid, so I wanted to create a world where the kid actually gets some power.

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

I tell the story of eight forgotten founders, people like Canassatego, an Iroquois Indian Chief, who taught Benjamin Franklin about federalism, about the idea that you can form a confederacy in which the central power has only limited powers and local control is retained.

The gatekeepers don't control the gates, and the powers that be aren't as powerful.

I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.

There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.

We know that's the bottom line: if money is made, the powers that be pay attention.

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.

Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.

War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.

As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.

My hope is that we revive 'monopoly' as a core piece of political rhetoric that broadly denotes dominant firms with pernicious powers.

What you learn from my life is, first of all, that anybody can be a leader. You can be a leader. I wasn't born that way - I developed it, I worked at it. And also that the grassroots can organize and take on all the powers that be and defeat them. That is the lesson.