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Quotes About Influence

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
~ Marco Rubio
Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
~ Saadi
Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?
~ Peter Hitchens
Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.
~ Bede Griffiths
How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.
~ Samuel Barber
What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society.
~ Manuel Castells
The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.
~ Jack Kemp
Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
~ Yoko Ono
Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.
~ Paul Newman
I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.
~ Nelson Rockefeller
We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.
~ Aaron Russo
What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.
~ John Dickinson
We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
~ Matt Blunt
The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
~ Walt Whitman
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.
~ Leslie Caron
We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.
~ Lin Yutang
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.
~ Don DeLillo
There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility
~ David Buss