Kenneth Grahame Quotes

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

Of all forms of prestige, moral prestige is the most valuable, and no statesman should forget that one of the chief elements of British power is the moral weight that is behind it.

A seat in the council is honor without profit.

Let them hate as long as they fear.

Politicians respect a lot of things, but nothing so much as success.

The influence of the leaders is due in very small measure to the arguments they employ, but in a large degree to their prestige. The best proof of this is that, should they by any circumstance lose their prestige, their influence disappears.

You can’t be rich, strong, and loved, particularly by those who are not rich or strong.

Poor men's words have little weight.

Authority may be as much injured by words as by actions.

You have power, rank, command, influence; we have wealth, the source both of our strength and weakness.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is a finer.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show.

I see there is a people risen that I cannot win with gifts or honours, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can.

You don’t need to admire power, but you must always, however grudgingly, respect and understand it.

I helped to restore America's leadership.

When I was hanging out with Joey Clements in Chicago, I made it a point not to try to emulate him. I wanted basically to create my own character. I didn't want him to think I was hanging out with him solely to use him as research.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

I can do much, I can do everything for a man who will be my friend. I can give him power; I can give him wealth. I can give him reputation - the power, the wealth, the reputation which come to a man who speaks to a million people a day in the columns of a great paper.

When Shonda Rhimes calls, you feel like you get called into the principal's office a little bit, and you think, 'Maybe I better take that call.'

I was not a queen bee, ever.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.