Quotes About Influence

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

Radio is for those not famous, or infamous, enough to make The Tube.

Each week in the sample of 3,500 homes: 16 hours were spent reading newspapers, 25 hours watching TV, and 47 hours listening to the radio. If radio is dead, they'll have a hard time convincing it that it should lie down.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...

A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it.

If you smile at someone, they might smile back.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.

Military hospitals had reported that some anaesthetics had made patients speak while under their influence. This had led to a number of attempts to use cannabis as a truth drug. The point Dulles made was that now cannabis was widely regarded as respectable, and that in time the pioneer work of Dr. Cameron would be similarly looked upon," Buckley told the author.

No man actually owns a fortune; it owns him.

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

Always a godfather, never a god.

If we want to see change in our lives, we have to change things ourselves.

In college he had been too much engrossed with other things to listen to the arguments, or to be influenced by the general atmosphere of unbelief

Give me a child until he is seven, thought Tom, and he is forever after mine. When the Fascists say it, they're bums and kidnappers, but when the Church says it, it is known as putting a kid on the right track.

When God wants people to stay asleep, they stay asleep.

Just as many Muslims believe that one day—simply due to its innate doctrinal superiority—Islam may ultimately become the religion of all mankind, so do reconstructionists believe that one day Christianity will be acknowledged by all and will thus come to dominate the world. Imposition by force is undesirable, unnecessary, and counterproductive to the longer goal; it will simply come.

They had one all-important goal: to ensure that church and state maintained sole monopoly over doctrine.

Religion was the ideology of the period, working in support of conflicting geopolitical interests.

I am a man who is come. I am a man who is here. I bring nothing but myself and will take away nothing but myself when I leave. But I will do my very best to leave something behind.