Quotes about Influence
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
— Mahatma Gandhi
But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
— AA Milne
I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.
— Mae West
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
— William McKinley
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
— Frank Herbert
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.
— Aristotle
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
— Frank Herbert
If your desire is for good, the people will be good.
— Confucius
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
— Albert Camus
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
— Edmund Burke