Quotes About Influence

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

Allowing your kids to watch TV doesn't have to mean they have no choice but to see commercials for junk food and alcohol.

I always say that environment always affects the food.

If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.

Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports.

It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.

Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done.

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?