Quotes about Influence
Life is like a pond, and every decision and act we commit, good or bad, is a pebble flung into it. The ripples spread in widening circles.
— Francine Rivers
You have no idea the power a good woman has over a man. You made me think about the faith I thought Id lost. He gave a low laugh. You got me back inside a church. And, if all that isn't enough.. He took her hand, kissed the palm, and pressed it flat against his bare chest. She could feel the hard pounding of his heart. Does that make you feel safer?
— Francine Rivers
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
— Frank Herbert
One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
— Frank Herbert
We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.
— Frank Herbert
To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.
— Frank Herbert
In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures.
— Frank Herbert
Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.
— Frank Herbert
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout? —Bene
— Frank Herbert
Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
— Frank Herbert
It is not the present which influences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.
— Frank Herbert
While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine—history will call us wives.
— Frank Herbert