Quotes About Influence

Give the people what they want" is only half sound. What they want and what they get are fused by some mysterious alchemy. The press, the lecturer, the screen and the public lead and are led by each other.

To a large degree the press, the schools, the churches, motion pictures, advertising, the lecture platform and radio all conform to the demands of the public. But to an equally large degree the public responds to the influence of these very same mediums of communication.

Domination today is not a product of armies or navies or wealth or policies. It is a domination based on the one hand upon accomplished unity, and on the other hand upon the fact that opposition is generally characterized by a high degree of disunity.

Did Revere make history or did Longfellow?

Propaganda is a purposeful, directed effort to overcome censorship—the censorship of the group mind and the herd reaction.

There is a thin line between convincing people of the merits of a case and suggesting they are moral outcasts if they fail to see it.

If the democratically backed will of the world's largest trading bloc can be undone by a group of unelected trade judges, imagine the odds for anyone else.

People tend to form political beliefs in their early years and then stick with them for life. If today's rich young are tomorrow's thought leaders, democracy has a shaky future.

Brecht once said: 'All power comes from the people. But where does it go?

No bourgeoisie, no democracy.

M + D = C, Monopoly plus Discretion equals Corruption

Although environmental factors do influence the course of ADD over a lifetime, most practitioners in the field now agree that the characteristic problems of people with ADD stem from neurobiological malfunctioning

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primary mental abilities and perceptual and motor skills are the most influenced by heredity, while personality traits are the least influenced. If

People, I have learned, have a way of taking root in one's still-developing mind without our knowing it, especially people, like [James] Baldwin, who live in the world of words.

Perhaps the most influential is the family myth of dire consequences, in which we feel that we are absolutely indispensable for everything in the church to work; if we don't do our job, everything will fall

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you're any wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and even it can inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise, it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.

It is not necessary to remind you of the fact that your voice, amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other, does not confer upon you greater wisdom than when your voice reached only from one end of the bar to the other. All of these things you know.

You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.

It was politics and religion, in van Dyck's private view, that made men dangerous. Trade made them wise.

You can make money in a small way without politics. But to make big money, you need to buy the legislature. Can't be done otherwise.