Quotes About Influence

It takes a society to raise a generation.

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

Beware the ridiculous. It will one day rule you.

That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

Overall there may be less censorship in America than in China, but censorship and self-censorship are not only from political pressure, but also pressures from other places in a society.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.

Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.

That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries.

There's not as much big money on the left, but you've got George Soros, who has the Open Society Institute. He's pushing liberal policies.

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

I think sharing experiences is a great thing in order to change things in society.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

Religion is ... the most pernicious single influence in human society, without one redeeming feature.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think its foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.