Quotes About Influence

Mississippi used to be able to do whatever it wanted to do, until the United States found out about it. And now that Mississippi has become part of the United States, things ain't the same. Well, it's become partially part of it, anyway. Which is sayin' a lot, because, when I was a boy, wuddn none of it in America.

Isn't there a risk, you wonder, of indigenous leaders being corrupted by the big corporations? No doubt. But aren't we already living with the problem of government officials, politicians, civil servants, political parties and mayors being corrupted by these companies or – to put it in gentler terms – agreeing to act in a compliant manner? They

When parties and elections are financed not by public funds but by private contributions, the political forum is so constrained by the wishes of the dominant interests that the basic measures needed to establish just constitutional rule are seldom properly presented.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Beauty is power; a smile is tls sword.

Beauty is power and a smile is it's sword

the entire Vietnam peace movement had been KGB funded, as were many journalism departments.

There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things.

Shakespeare has no heroes. He only has heroines.

You're saying the media is dangerous, immoral, and antidemocratic?" "Well . . . yes," Henderson said. "They don't recognize it in themselves, but they're basically criminals. In the classic sense of that word.

You're saying the media is dangerous, immoral, and antidemocratic?

Flowers wouldn't be buttering their toast after the next election, but Pweters might be.

How many people have figured out that if you lie enough, and loud enough, people will start to believe?

You could get away with actual crimes for years, if you had enough money to protect yourself.

a political line that sounds like the party's. I thought of you and your boys, first thing. A few other people

TV. It's like if you're not on it, you don't exist. The single most pernicious idea in our culture.

Dannon had tried to catch her eye, but she'd resolutely moved on to the next Important Person.

chair and read a story in a four-year-old Cosmo about how women can keep their men interested by learning the latest in blow-job techniques—the techniques themselves were described blow by blow, so to speak, by a panel of successful New York advertising and media women. I was not only convinced, I was supportive.

They were the kind of people whose unhappiness tended to become your unhappiness, to say nothing of your screaming agony.

Teenagers can be idiotic and stupid, but teenagers also model their behavior from the signals they get from adults.

In politics as in high school, who you are is to a large extent defined by who you sit with at lunch, and there was no doubt about it, the Earth was sitting at the loser table. It was not, Bob Pope thought, the true destiny of the Earth in our universe to be counted among the diplomatic equivalent of the acne-ridden and the furtively masturbating.

When you control communication, you can hide anything you want.

words themselves are action; they do not simply describe the world but in a very real sense make the world. Therefore it makes sense to pay attention to the worlds people are attempting to create in their words.