Quotes About Influence

Give a truly good person power, and they're still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they're still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn't evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don't always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.

It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

No such thing as a hard woman, Memphis,just soft men. With that, I turned, and the others followed me.

A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.

One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.

The powerless are sometimes only good because they are not strong enough to be evil

What makes people is not bone structure and eye color, but the force of their personalities. the years of experience painted on their faces.

I don't know whether to yell at you or hug you.' 'I affect a lot of people that way

Laurell K. Hamilton

Because if someone is determined to do something evil there's really no stopping them. It's not the music they listen to, in the television or movies they watch, or video games they play, or even the books they read.

You're the scariest motherfucker in the room.

Guilt is a wonderful motivator.

I'd had Jean-Claude drive the metaphysical bus before, but I'd never felt it like this, never been so aware of how terribly aware he was of his power, of my power, of the power we all offered him. He was vampire, which meant he was a cold power, a thing of logic, because emotions do not trouble the dead. He shifted through our talents, like Edward would have looked through his gun safe. Which gun will do the job? Which will make this shot?

He gets power from his line, his master," I said, "it isn't always about personal power." "Truth and Wicked have no masters, do you?" The

It has been my experience that if you have the responsibility of leadership, you might as well have the jewelry to go with it.

Breeding. It takes real breeding to make a person feel like shit with one word.

The person who knew you best when you were seventeen will always have a claim on you, no matter how much you change. There's something seductive and magnetic about it, the feeling of being understood like that. I suppose it goes both ways. (19)

The person who knew you best when you were seventeen will always have a claim on you, no matter how much you change. There's something seductive and magnetic about it, the feeling of being understood like that. I suppose it goes both ways.

Oh, don't be silly - EVERYONE wants this. Everyone wants to be us.

Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies. The Orchid Affair

What a very odd thing,' said Janie, 'to live and leave no mark.

Of all the weapons the Europeans brought to the Pacific, guns included, none was more powerful and more capable of effecting lasting change than written language.