impact quotes

   The only way to escape misrepresentation is never to commit oneself to any critical judgement that makes an impactthat is, never say anything.

- F(rank) R(aymond) Leavis
  The Great  Tradition, ch.1.

With all allowance made for Marx's erudition and his historic impact upon the social sciences, especially sociology, it is as an art united with prophecy, virtually religious prophecy, that Marxism survives.

- Robert Nisbet
  Sociology as an  Art Form, ch.5.