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Quotes About Influence

Society is secretly driven by sales
~ Peter Thiel
Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
~ Tammy Bruce
Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.
~ Willis Harman
Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.
~ Donald Miller
Business is society's change agent.
~ Peter Drucker
We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We're more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.
~ Mike Tyson
The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.
~ Edmund A. Opitz
The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.
~ Eric Hoffer
When an individual is awake, almost all he does and says is inspired by the model of behavior that the society imposes,even without his being aware of it.
~ Erich Fromm
The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.
~ Andrew Sullivan
All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
~ Philip Yancey
Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.
~ Dan Mathews
Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.
~ Maggie Kuhn
The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.
~ Arthur Koestler
If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.
~ Vinton Cerf
The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.
~ Dustin Clare
We are to a large extent an imitative society.
~ Edward R. Murrow
Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.
~ Eric Hoffer
There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.
~ Fran Lebowitz
If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.
~ George Takei