Quotes About Influence

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

The minority must bow to the majority.

The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.

When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.

If you're a minority party that doesn't control any branch of government, you're more likely to be ignored.

For Obama, there was just a lot of enthusiasm in the minority communities to get out and vote. Everybody felt like their vote mattered.

I rebelled against the idea of the artist being what I call the 'after-dinner mint' of society. I didn't want them to be just the entertainers, but rather part of the community - the bread, not only the dessert.

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

When I saw Courtney Love in 1994, I knew what I wanted to do. The minute I saw a female-fronted rock n' roll band, that changed my life.

It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.

The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.

many dimensions, and the sparks go out in all directions. So do not think that you go in only one direction. You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society and the whole world.

No sólo los niños deben ser protegidos de películas, programas televisivos, libros, revistas y juegos violentos insanos, sino que nosotros podemos también ser destruidos por los medios de comunicación.

Sometimes we act without intention, but that is also action. "Habit energy" is pushing us; it pushes us to do things without our being aware. Sometimes we do something without knowing we're doing it. Even when we don't want to do something, we still do it. Sometimes we say, "I didn't want to do it, but it's stronger than me, it pushed me." So that is a seed, a habit energy, that may have come from many generations in the past.

We are continued in our children, in our students, in everyone whose lives we have touched.

The reality is that the past is gone; all that's left of it now is impressions or images lingering in the depths of our consciousness. Yet these images from the past continue to haunt us, block us, and otherwise influence our behavior in the present, causing us to say and do things we don't really want. We lose all our freedom.

Movies are food for our eyes, ears, and minds. When we watch TV, the program is our food. Children who spend five hours a day watching television are ingesting images that water the negative seeds of craving, fear, anger, and violence in them. We are exposed to so many forms, colors, sounds, smells, tastes, objects of touch, and ideas that are toxic and rob our body and consciousness of their well-being.

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If we cannot become what we want to become, we resort to another person—inevitably the person closest to us—and make of him what we have been unable to make of ourselves

We fill our mental strong-room with these great minds and old masters and resort to them at the crucial moment in our lives;