Influence Underground

Famous quotes containing the words influence and/or underground:

“Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)