Quotes About Influence

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

I'm am not a great man I am just a man who has ideas and forces them on to the public via the Internet.

A group of idiots led by a wise man can defeat a group of wise people led by an idiot.

The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.

We human girls can be persuaded to do ANYTHING. Just yesterday I said I would never ever wear a tampon, and, well what do you know?! Today I'm wearing one.

Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.

Attitudes are contagious. Do you want people around you to catch yours?

Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

They will only care when you're gone.

Our history suggests that women will continue to show the world how to be friends.