Ralph Nader Quotes

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.

One thing I'm interested in is what shapes us: the people? The place where we live? It's both of those and more. That's what I keep coming back to.

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

People cultivate these fully formed personalities.

Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.

Man is a child of his environment.

One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

Cultural background surely plays a part in shaping identity; but it does not determine identity.

I'm raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.

We're all products of our own environment.

I think that style, taste, and choices in general are forged by everything that surrounds you - everything you see, taste, touch, smell and hear. So of course, my family has influenced me as a person and in my own style, but so have all the experiences that I went through as an individual.

I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.

Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality.

As individuals, we are so different in our personalities, lifestyles, how we grew up, and our culture.

I'm fascinated by people's process. Everyone's process is a little bit different, and just to see the different paths that people take to get where they are is really interesting to me.

Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality.

Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.