Quotes About Influence

My work with him was the basis of my senior thesis,

Aunt logic is an immovable object; aunts themselves an unstoppable force.

Whatever one has rejected is in itself a tangible shaping force.

Ronald Reagan was not a god. He himself would have said that. Don't follow people. Follow principle.

is not right that children be dunked headfirst into the vat of garbage we call popular culture.

The Constitution designed the separation of church and state to prevent people from imposing their particular religions on others, not to stop people from allowing their religious beliefs to influence their views on public policy.

No picture should lower the moral standards of those who see it.

If Obama learned one thing from FDR, it was that every socialist needs his foot soldiers.

Government cannot change the hearts of human beings—it cannot make them that which they are not.

The Hays Code stated: "When right standards are consistently presented, the motion picture exercises the most powerful influences. It builds character, develops right ideals, inculcates correct principles, and all this in attractive story form. If motion pictures consistently hold up for admiration high types of characters and present stories that will affect lives for the better, they can become the most powerful force for the improvement of mankind.

The Founding Fathers were devotees of Cicero and Locke, of the Bible and Aristotle.

If Obama learned one thing from FDR, it was that every socialist needs his foot soldiers. And what better place to get them than the unions?

There are few colleges or universities where parents may send their sons and daughters without their being contaminated with some phase of the vilest of Communistic and allied teaching," cautioned Roscoe Dorsey of the National Republic magazine.

I liked George W. Bush, but his second term was a disaster area. So was much of his first term. I don't feel the necessity to defend his Iran policy, because it was terrible. Period. Ronald Reagan was not a god. He himself would have said that. Don't follow people. Follow principle.

There's a reason that major Democratic candidates work with Hollywood.

from nonprofit organizations to push Obamacare—the same organizations responsible

The brainwashing of students by the university system is one of the most severe problems plaguing America's youth.

The reason that conservatives lost the 2012 election was garishly simple: most people in America don't follow politics that closely. What they see about the various candidates are what the candidates say about each other, and what the media say about the candidates.

It was left to Hume, once again, to completely circumscribe reason. "Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions," Hume famously wrote, taking to its logical extreme the thought of his predecessors. "[Reason] cannot be the source of moral good or evil, which are found to have that influence."24

Leftists argue that professorial bias is irrelevant to their teaching. They say that even if a professor is liberal, he or she will undoubtedly offer a balanced view. This is blatantly false. As they do in the mainstream media, liberals dominate the "higher education" scene. And just as in the media, the liberal tilt is extremely real and extremely influential.

All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?

most professors—and not just those in the political and social science departments—don't even aspire to present a balanced perspective.

College students are attacked with bias from the moment they step on campus until the time they leave it. The effect is devastating.

The Democrats running the universities don't separate politics and teaching.