Quotes About Influence

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

When we look at our children, I think a lot of the troubles we're having as a society is because we don't have strong fathers in these families that can tell their kids that they can do more.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

Society created the prison in its own image; will history, with its penchant for paradox, reverse those roles?

A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

I wouldn't mind doing more in the kid's world because I think that might be just where I can be most useful to society, to the planet, if I can speak to children.

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.

Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

Art has political consequences, which is to say, it reorganizes society and creates constituencies of people around it.

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed.

When man gives up on reforming and inspiring society he also gives up his freedom.

Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.

John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?