Quotes About Influence

What the dominant classes hold as true tends to shape social and political practice. If the elites hold a materialism that reduces humans to computers, then they will treat people like computers. Thinking will be reduced to computing: the neuroelectrophysiology of the brain. People will be judged solely by how well they perform their assigned functions. And when they stop functioning, they will be tossed in the garbage heap with the other electronic trash.

More Chinese attend church each Sunday than are members of the Communist Party.

Artists are often the barometers of society.

tall women of Swedish descent attract attention that's way out of proportion to our relative importance to the world.

He didn't move back to allow me to walk by him, and so I had to brush heavily against him on my way out the door. I felt as if my body were metal to his magnet, and I had literally to pull away from him.

By telling Christians they are citizens of heaven, then, Paul was telling them to permeate the world with a heavenly culture.

We have learned that "politics is downstream from culture, not the other way around," says Bill Wichterman, policy advisor to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. "Real change has to start with the culture. All we can do on Capitol Hill is try to find ways government can nurture healthy cultural trends.

The movies were custard compared to politics.

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. —Frank Tyger

Penwoman to Posterity.

Yet the tranquil image of suburbias of the past remains, and continues to influence us, as do traditional concepts of femininity....

Epictetus famously opens the Encheiridion this way: "Some things in the world are up to us, while others are not. Up to us are our faculties of judgment, motivation, desire, and aversion—in short, everything that is our own doing. Not up to us are our body and property, our reputations, and our official positions—in short, everything that is not our own doing.

Some things are up to us and some are not up to us." —Epictetus "I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." —Angela Davis "If you want to be a true professional, do something outside yourself." "Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?" —Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world

I'd hope Dad could talk her out of going along on her daughter's honeymoon. Somebody had to.

No one had really won. Not me. Not Hyo Jin. Not our children. Only Sun Myung Moon had gotten what he wanted all along. My children and I had slipped out of the grasp of the Unification Church, but we were destined to remain in the shadow of the Moons.

A child's growth is defined entirely by the adult that raises him.

The only wave that changes anything is a tsunami. You have to tear down the houses and destroy that land if you want to be sure no one will forget you.

Power has her ways. She acts on people, and people act on her.

The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.

Fox News would say whatever makes the most people tune into Fox News.

The only wave that changes anything is a tsunami. You have to tear down the houses and destroy the land if you want to be sure no one will forget you.

Power has her ways. She acts on people, and people act on her. When does power exist? Only in the moment it is exercised.