Social Effect Quotes

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the tanks or the RPGs or military strategy. It's always about the effect war has on civilians, on society, and how it disrupts and destroys lives.

Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.

I recognize the unknowing, involuntary effect that 'Facts of Life' had and continues to have on several generations of people.

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilization. For them, such a charge is worse than that of crime.

Technology is impacting everything we do on a daily basis.

Any powerful technology has sauce for the goose and the gander... It's just an extension of humanity.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Your life is about everyone whose life you touch, and it is about the way in which you touch them.

If I can impact people with my music, that's what I want.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.

The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect—to help people work together—and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies. We develop trust across the miles and distrust around the corner.

'Hatful of Hollow' and 'The Smiths' were lent to me, and they made me want to create music that might make another person feel like they made me feel - to have an effect on someone.

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.

I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.

Not only do we have a right to be happy, we have an obligation to be happy because our happiness has an effect on everyone around us.

All of the economic theories in the world translate themselves eventually to what happens to people in communities.

Any time you can have an impact on anybody's life in a positive direction, to bring happiness to the community or a certain group of people, you don't take that lightly as a team, as a player.

I don't think the Church has ever contributed anything to anybody, anyplace, at any time.

You will never be able to measure your influence for good.

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy.