Quotes About Influence

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government.

Demagoguery is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

This war would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits. We owe it to Popery that we now see our land reddened with the blood of her noblest sons.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.

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

Ä°nsanlar söylediklerinizi ya da yapt?klar?n?z? unutur, ama onlara neler hissettirdiÄŸinizi asla unutmaz...

GeleceÄŸi tahmin etmek imkans?zd?r. Ama ÅŸimdiki zaman? çok iyi bilirsen geleceÄŸi kontrol edebilirsin.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

Its monarch, the ManiKongo, was chosen by an assembly of clan leaders. Like his European counterparts, he

Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. Aldrich, a multimillionaire, a card-playing partner of J. Pierpont Morgan, the father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was the ultimate Washington power broker. "I'm just a president," Roosevelt once told the journalist Lincoln Steffens, "and he has seen lots of presidents.

Isn't that why all writers write? To inspire their readers?

Had J.D. Salinger known who John Hinckley and mark David Chapman were before they bought his books or took them out of the library? Would it have mattered if he had? Had he returned the royalties he received from those purchases?

Sometimes all a story needed was one or two people to read or listen to it to make it matter.

Do you, like Agamemnon, attempt to dominate your world?

Control was the basis of all humor. Even at its most innocent, what was a joke or a clever comment if not a way to take control? To become King of the Moment.

Sejal had not often thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hindi characters inked carelessly on tight tank tops and pale flesh. She knew Americans liked to flash a little Indian or Japanese or African. They were always looking for a little pepper to put in their dish.

Who wants a leader who wants to be leader? And I could see his point there. I've always sort of thought we ought to keep a close eye on anyone who wants power over others.

Are we slaves or masters of our genes? We are neither, and it's a dumb, simplistic question.

In a nation distracted by faction, there are, no doubt, always a few, though commonly but a very few, who preserve their judgment untainted by the general contagion. They seldom amount to more than, here and there, a solitary individual, without any influence, excluded, by his own candour, from the confidence of either party, and who, though he may be one of the wisest, is necessarily, upon that very account, one of the most insignificant men in the society.

The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading, and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires.

The great mob of mankind are the admirers and worshippers, and, what may seem more extraordinary, most frequently the disinterested admirers and worshippers, of wealth and greatness.

I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will allow.

THE WEALTH OF NATIONS is one of the most important and influential books ever written. It