dominant influence Quotes

Own nothing, control everything.

This power becomes particularly irresistible when exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to govern credit and determine its allotment, for that reason supplying, so to speak, the lifeblood to the entire economic body, and grasping, as it were, in their hands the very soul of production, so that no one dare breathe against their will.

How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.

All powerful is the rule of fashion.

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

A tiny portion of the population controls the lions share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing, banking, investment, publishing, higher education, philanthropy, and media... these individuals exercise a preponderant influence over what is passed off as public information and democratic discourse.

Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.

Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.

Is not Precedent indeed a King of men? A Word from the Psalmist.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

Opinion crowns with an imperial voice.

Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.