Quotes About Influence

he became King of Portugal, King of Naples, King of Sicily, the Duke of Milan

Charismatic leaders rely primarily on the power of their own personalities to justify their office. They don't fit well into bureaucratic structures and project an almost 'missionary

Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.

This is how terrorists get started, this kind of harmless fun.

It's like she thinks she's your mother or something.

I need to study David Petrakis. His actions speak louder than word. I've never heard a more eloquent silence.

OUR FREEDOM DEPENDS ON THE EXERTIONS OF A FEW PATRIOTIC INDIVIDUALS. IT IS WITH GRIEF THAT WE LEARN THAT THE CONGRESS IS MADE UP OF SO FEW OF THEM. —DIARY OF CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL, PHILADELPHIA PHARMACIST

For a man who claimed not to care much for women, Mr Holmes sure found some strong ones.

When there is an emotional element in a belief, argument rarely has much effect. 

When ambitious men overcome a dynasty and seize power, they inevitably adopt most of the ways of their predecessors. —THE Muqaddimah OF IBN KHALDÛN

If one plays on fear, takes away any remotely complicated ideas, and offers people a sense of confidence and right, one's followers will beat to death any enemy they are pointed at.

First the man takes a drink, as one hears it said, and then the drink takes a drink. And even if that's where it stops, before the third step of and then the drink takes the man

The book probably owes a little to The Tooth and the Nail, by Bill S. Ballinger, a fine writer who's pretty much forgotten these

All it knows is, if the person doesn't do what you want them to do, beat them up, disapprove of them, send some negative energy their way, ridicule them. This is our idea of love: Do what I want you to do and I'll love you. Don't do what I want you to do and I'll have nothing to do with you. That approach isn't working for you, is it?

Words, the acid-bath of words.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

effect of place upon human temperaments.

King Abdullah has died. A divisive figure in the Middle East. The sad irony is that the USA preached democracy in the face of absolute rule.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.

I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.

It's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone

Halloween put me on the map, and I'm very sad to hear of his death.