Quotes About Influence

A parent's approval always mattered, regardless of age—

father might have been my favorite playmate, but she was my hero

Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

The position that God promised the church is to influence the society. We are to govern the attitude and the conduct and the motivation of the human race.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

The coercive power of government is always a beacon to those who want to dominate others -- summoning the worst dregs of society to Washington to use that power to impose their will upon others.

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy

When individuals change, society will change. And when society changes, the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole.

Men build society and society builds men.

Only the person who does not evade conflict and directs his efforts in keeping with the course of society's development can be an effective leader.

You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world.

How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist.

Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.

I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our society. Hip hop is sick because America is sick.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.