William Hazlitt Quotes

Black is a colour of power and strength.

I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.

No critic ever changed the world.

Be sure that you make a difference in the world.

The reputation of power IS power.

The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.

Authority and example lead the world.

We are here to influence the world rather than to be influenced by the world.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that's what I started out to do - to make a dent in pop culture.

There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.

Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.

Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. Its why the whole world is falling apart.

I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."

The jingling of a fat purse always commands the world.

No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.

We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.

Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

We must not forget that … monetary policy all over the world has followed the advice of the stabilizers. It is high time that their influence, which has already done harm enough, should be overthrown.