Social Impact Quotes

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

Politics is downstream from culture.

The greatest are an inspiration for all the kids who wake up early in the morning. Everyone watches you, is inspired by you and wants to be you. So you influence society. That's what being more than an athlete means. I want more kids to have that opportunity. I want everybody to start with the same chance.

I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

It's difficult to get away from the shadow of a TV character.

First Fruits has impacted my life personally and the lives of countless others!

Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

The newspaper is a moral force second only to the church. It is a political power superior to parties. It is an instrument of justice coequal with the court.

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

Free Blacks are unfavorable to our industry and morals.

Everyone needs to stop and breathe and look at how redefining marriage will have a hugely chilling effect on religious liberty in America.

Whatever may be said about the power of the press, it is undeniable that it can set the entire public thinking and talking about any topic ...

Gerald Ford's economics is the worst thing that's happened to this country since pantyhose ruined finger-fucking.

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

To have a platform to make a difference ultimately, which is what I want to do with my life, we've got to win football games. When you're highly paid and your losing, no one really cares what you have to say.

I've helped save so many families with my music and inspire so many people.

A lawyer's either a social engineer or he's a parasite on society.

The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.

Make the world better

Science fiction literature's focus is on ideas, the concept of change, and the impact on humanity. Those concepts are hard to capture on film. They work better in the mind.

You cannot effectuate change if you do not have power.