Quotes About Influence

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

Radicalism and extremism, while they are dangers, they exist in every society on some level.

It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in part, to build or destroy its future.

To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

Music is always a commentary on society.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.

In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

The real bias of the media is not to the left or to the right, but to the thin strata of economic elites at the top of our society.

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.