Quotes About Influence

Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

Fashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur.

The arts stop society going rotten and mad.

Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.

The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Artists don't create society, they reflect it