Quotes About Influence

Se voglio dire che il disegno – costruzione di una cosa o oggetto o strumento – è fatto bene, è bello, certamente lo posso dire quando voglio... ma se non sono un potente non lo posso sostenere.

il Potere non permette che si preparino uomini che pensino agli uomini ma solo uomini che pensino al Potere, pensino soprattutto a difendere il Potere; lo Stato pensa a se stesso e pensa alla gente solo per quel tanto e nei modi che permettono al Potere di esserci e sopravvivere.

hardest time: our voice will not be our own. The crusader's voice is the voice of the crowd and must rise louder all the time, for there is, of course, the other side to be drowned out. Worse, the voices of most crowds sound alike. Worse still, the voice that seeks to do other than communicate when it makes a noise has something brutal about it; it is no longer using words as words but as something to brandish, with which to threaten, brag or condemn.

The crusader's voice is the voice of the crowd and must rise louder all the time, for there is, of course, the other side to be drowned out. Worse, the voices of most crowds sound alike. Worse still, the voice that seeks to do other than communicate when it makes a noise has something brutal about it; it is no longer using words as words but as something to brandish, with which to threaten, brag or condemn.

One man with courage makes a majority.

Just dismissing them gave me a kind of power over them. That was the whole method of the con, even when I was conning myself. These

It is so delightful to teach those one loves!

The advantage of possessing a great empire is not to be able to do the evil that one desires, but to do all the good that one possibly can.

Maxinquaye by Tricky,

Edward is 'going the dictator way, and is pro-German,

Windsors genuinely believe that they will be restored to the throne under German influence: he will become a sort of Gauleiter and Wallis a queen.

The Duke was strongly pro-German, indeed considered himself almost German, telling Diana Mosley, 'Every drop of blood in my veins is German.'15 He spoke German fluently and sometimes referred to it as his mother tongue and had spent most of his summers before the First World War visiting German relatives. The murder of his Russian relations in 1918 had had a profound influence on him and he always considered communism as the real threat to Britain's interests and empire.

The taste of the masses isn't for structured music, it's for rhythm. Primitive music, Black music, has had a big influence in determining what's played on the radio, because the radio audience is more primitive in tastes than the concert audiences were.

As for Mustafa Kemal, he was to tell the English journalist Grace Ellison in 1923: 'I don't like Napoleon at all. He intruded his person into everything. He fought not for a cause, but for himself. That's why he came to a bad end. It's inevitable for such people.'45

Human history, properly understood, starts when we move from being just another form of prey in the cycle of eat-and-be-eaten, a creature blown about by the natural world, to a creature beginning to shape the world. We move from happens-to, to makes-happen. But

Human history, properly understood, starts when we move from being just another form of prey in the cycle of eat-and-be-eaten, a creature blown about by the natural world, to a creature beginning to shape the world.

Some of the greatest of great men have also been the biggest bastards alive. As

Some of the greatest of great men have also been the biggest bastards

If we are honest with ourselves, we can list almost everything that's ever happened to us - and see how we helped create it.

A man who believes that a convincing lie can shape the cosmos in a way he sees fit may not have a problem erasing one or two inconvenient barriers in his path. Obstacles that happen to be sitting in his private jet.

One of his best techniques was buying off the clerks that handled the procedural work for judges. We found numerous examples of major cases that were dismissed or postponed because a clerk lost evidence or changed filings, creating procedural errors.

Nature controls us more than we want to admit.

She wanted to be like you." Be like me? A socially ignorant bystander to the world?

CIA hired dirtbags to drop guns into South America. Those same dirtbags used their planes and contacts to bring cocaine back. It's not the same as saying the CIA controlled the drug trade, but it had the same effect.