Social Force Quotes

I am the people — the mob — the crowd — the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?

Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive. We all may talk about religion as a powerful social force, but unlike other similarly powerful institutions, religion is not to be questioned, criticized or mocked.

It is the multitude which possess force, and wisdom must yield to that.

The overall effect of the rise of the industrial system is greatly to reduce the union as a social force. But it will not disappear or become entirely unimportant.

Report uttered by the people is everywhere a great power.

There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

The educated classes are possessed by the idea that in the social domain anything can be accomplished if only one applies enough force and is sufficiently resolute.

Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function.

Great talents appear whenever the social conditions favorable to their development exist. This means that every man of talent who actually appears, every man of talent who becomes a social force, is the product of social relations.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force.

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.

Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.

Governments are sails, the people is the wind, the state is the boat, and time is the sea.

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Publicity, publicity, publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social force and continually encroaches on freedom through REPEATED compromises.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.

Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.

Fan Luv is a powerful positive movement. All over the world they come. It's a force of luv.

It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power—specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.