Quotes About Influence

She was as deep in the Wood's power as any person can be.

There's something worse than monsters in that place: something that makes monsters.

Think on it with a clear head. Lords and kings often don't ask for what they want, but they can afford to have bad manners.

My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, Please leave your foolishness at home. But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.

from Famous I want to be famous the in the way a pulley is famous,/or a buttonhole,not because it did anything spectacular,/but because it never forgot what it could do.

Only in words on a page can it still be yesterday.

What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

Health makes good propaganda.

What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

Female thinness and youth are not in themselves next to godliness in this culture. Society really doesn't care about women's appearance per se. What genuinely matters is that women remain willing to let others tell them what they can and cannot have. Women are watched, in other words, not to make sure that they will "be good," but to make sure that they will know they are being watched.

It is human nature to abuse power, no matter who you are.

Sexuality follows fashion, which follows politics.

Advertisers are the West's courteous censors.

What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired. Girls learn to watch their sex along with the boys [...]

In short, it was not commonly understood at that time that ideals didn't simply descend from heaven, that they actually came from somewhere and that they served a purpose. That purpose, as I would then explain, was often a financial one, namely to increase the profits of those advertisers whose ad dollars actually drove the media that, in turn, created the ideals. The ideal, I argued, also served a political end.

As she put it more wearily in a later interview in New Woman, Advertisers don't believe in female opinion makers. Steinem believes that it's the advertisers who've got to change. And she believes they will, though perhaps not in her lifetime.

What women look like is considered important because what we say is not.

Or else they will say: "Thank you so much for speaking for me when I was too little to speak." "Dad, Mom, Grandma, Grandpa," they will ask: "What did you do?" So let me leave you with this question: What did you do?

Their goal is to subvert Western cultural norms and ultimately to alienate Western children from their families' influence and from Western history and freedoms generally.

In 2020–22, we entered a time in which the post–World War II organizing principle of human affairs, the democratic nation-state, was being intentionally diluted in power and undermined in the interest of constructing a replacement meta-structure of unaccountable loosely aligned global nonprofits, Big Tech corporations, the WEF, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Cruelty became as contagious as any disease.

It is your responsibility to make sure that positive emotions constitute the dominating influence of your mind.

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy; unless you let him.