Quotes About Influence

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

I think there's a social responsibility that comes with a public platform. Because of the position that I've been put in, I think it's important to use my voice to do as much as I can.

I'm not saying everybody has a social responsibility of what art they create, but art should be open-ended. I just feel there's a lack of consciousness and understanding of impact and reach. Just maybe, for a second, just think of the effect you could have with a lyric.

Actors have a social responsibility.

Football generates a lot of money, but there has to be a social responsibility that goes with that. It can positively affect people's lives.

If we elect people who have never been to public school, never had to worry about counting on Social Security, then how can they effectively legislate?

For generations, our political life was distorted by the influence of public officials whose foremost goal was to preserve the essence, if not the form, of slavery in a segregated and discriminatory social system.

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

I think the Right did us a service calling Obama a socialist for eight years. It inoculated us.

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

My father brought me up to be a socialist.

My father was a socialist, so we had some of the most extraordinary people at home.

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

The early socialization of a child is crucial.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

It's rare that you get to be a part of something that, hopefully, has some significance socially or historically.

I'm not inherently the most politically or, like, socially conscious rapper, you know? You're not just going to wake up tomorrow and be Common.

I was one of those guys who was, I guess, socially popular in school.

Let's face it: if you're an elite basketball player and you choose to be socially and politically active, it could harm your brand.

When women are seen on TV being crass or funny or making jokes or undercutting someone, then you feel it's socially acceptable for a woman to do that. More women are growing up feeling, 'I can speak my mind and say what I want.'

I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.

Thinking about the artists I've loved through the years, my favorites are the ones who've made music with cultural, societal and political significance.