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Quotes About Influence

Architecture is definitely a political act.
~ Peter Eisenman
Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.
~ Shirley Chisholm
Architecture is always political.
~ Richard Rogers
Saudi Arabia is the mother and father of political Islam.
~ Jamal Khashoggi
Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
~ C. L. R. James
I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.
~ Joseph P. Kennedy
I believe that cinema is not only an artistic industry, but there is also a political activity.
~ Parvathy
The guys in U2, whom I work with a lot, have a very open political agenda.
~ Jonas Akerlund
My father was not a political animal.
~ Mickey Kaus
Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.
~ Alison Jackson
My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
~ M.I.A.
I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
The first day you're a leader is the beginning of the end of your political career.
~ Jenny Shipley
I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
~ Garry Kasparov
I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.
~ Mike Nichols
My concern is to keep religion and the state separated. I don't think that religion and politics go together. When you see political decisions colored by religion, decisions that affect us all... I thought: 'I do not want to go back to medieval times.'
~ Bjorn Ulvaeus
Political history is not the only way to approach historical figures.
~ Fred Kaplan
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
~ E. O. Wilson
It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
~ Oscar Niemeyer
People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.
~ Jonathan Haidt
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
Me talking about political issues on a social platform was kind of an accident. It's something that's a part of my everyday - it's super central to who I am as a person.
~ Amandla Stenberg
If I have an idea, I can actualize it through our political leaders.
~ Aliko Dangote
Netanyahu needs to leave Israel's political life.
~ Benny Gantz