History Quotes / ToxicFriendInfluence

->'''Bart''': What's [your mom] got against me?
->'''Milhouse''': She says you're a bad influence.
->'''Bart''': Bad influence my ass! [[IResembleThatRemark How many times have I told you not to listen to your mother]]!?
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

->''Rick, [[DearJohnLetter forgive me for doing this in notes.]] I'm not strong enough to do it in [[HiveMind persons.]]\\
I realize now that I'm attracted to you for the same reason I can't be with you. You can't change. And I have no problem with that, but it clearly means I have a problem with myself.\\
I'm sure there's no perfect version of me. I'm sure I'll just unify species after species and never really be complete. But I know how it goes with us; I lose who I am and become part of you. Because in a strange way, you're better at what I do without even trying.\\
Yours, and nobody else's,\\
Unity''
-->--''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', "Auto Erotic Assimilation"

->Take a look at this guy. Remember that face. [[SarcasmMode I know he looks like a totally upstanding citizen]], but I would recommend ''not'' following his advice. He's kind of like that friend that gets you into so much trouble -- like, ''really serious'' trouble -- that you start wondering if your friend is just more stupid than you thought, or if he ''knows'' he's going to end up in prison at some point, and wants to bring you along with him for the company.
-->-- '''Ross Scott''', ''WebVideo/RosssGameDungeon'', regarding an NPC in ''VideoGame/{{Strife}}'' who gives you a sidequest that makes the game UnwinnableByDesign when you complete it.

->In my American education system, children who are disrupting the ability of the rest of the class to learn should be plucked out of the class and put in a school for disruptive children. That's what I think, in my world. It's my Blueberry Rule. ... I think common sense dictates that if you buy a quart of blueberries and all the blueberries are nice, plump, juicy blueberries and one of them is moldy, and you say, "You know what? The fair thing to do is to not take out this moldy blueberry and make it feel bad. I'm gonna leave this moldy blueberry in the box and hope that [[PositiveFriendInfluence all the healthy blueberries will make it well]]." Now, I'm no spring chicken, and I've bought lots of blueberries in my time, including blueberries with a moldy blueberry. And it's been my experience that the moldy blueberry doesn't get well from the well blueberries. What happens is, ''all'' the blueberries get moldy. So that when you have a very small number of children who are disrespectful, who are impeding the teacher from teaching the other kids who want to say, "Can you be quiet? I want to learn! I don't want to grow up to be a dummy! I want to be able to say a whole sentence without using the word 'like'!" They can't do that, because we leave in the moldy blueberries instead of taking them out.
-->--'''Judge Judy''', ''Series/JudgeJudy''

->''Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”''
-->--''[[Literature/BookOfCorinthians 1 Corinthians 15:33]]''

->''"To the other cadets, the members of that team are gods, and that's a hard image to live up to. But Nick Locarno, he watches out for them. He keeps them together. Nick is what makes that team special. He's their coach, surrogate father and best friend all in one. A natural leader. The members of that team love him. If he asks them to do something, they do it--even if it means going right over a cliff."''
-->-- '''Groundskeeper Boothby''', subtly telling Picard that Nick Locarno may not be a great influence on the rest of Nova Squadron, ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E19TheFirstDuty The First Duty]]"

->''Law 10: Infection: Avoid the unhappy and the unlucky. You can die from someone else's misery - emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you're helping the drowning man but you're only precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they'll also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.''
-->--'''Robert Greene''', ''The 48 Laws of Power''

->'''Elan:''' I can't tell if [[PositiveFriendInfluence the cat is a good influence on Belkar]], or [[TokenEvilTeammate Belkar]] is a bad influence on [[TeamPet the cat]].\\
'''Haley:''' Both, I think, but it probably still averages out somewhere south of Neutral.
-->-- ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0781.html #781]]

->''Law 10: Avoid the unhappy and the unlucky. You can die from someone else's misery - emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you're helping the drowning man but you're only precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate sometimes draw misfortune on themselves; they'll also draw it on you. Associate with the happy and fortunate instead.''

-->-- '''Anne Boonchuy''', ''{{WesternAnimation/Amphibia}}''

-->--''[[Literature/BookOfCorinthians 1 Corinthians 15:33]]

-->-- '''Anne Boonchuy''', ''{{WesternAnimation/Amphibia}}''

-->-- ''WebVideo/MyLittlePonyTotallyLegitRecap'', "Newbie Dash"

-->--'''Judge Judy''', ''Series/JudgeJudy''

-->In my American education system, children who are disrupting the ability of the rest of the class to learn should be plucked out of the class and put in a school for disruptive children. That's what I think, in my world. It's my Blueberry Rule. ... I think common sense dictates that if you buy a quart of blueberries and all the blueberries are nice, plump, juicy blueberries and one of them is moldy, and you say, "You know what? The fair thing to do is to not take out this moldy blueberry and make it feel bad. I'm gonna leave this moldy blueberry in the box and hope that [[PositiveFriendInfluence all the healthy blueberries will make it well]]." Now, I'm no spring chicken, and I've bought lots of blueberries in my time, including blueberries with a moldy blueberry. And it's been my experience that the moldy blueberry doesn't get well from the well blueberries. What happens is, ''all'' the blueberries get moldy. So that when you have a very small number of children who are disrespectful, who are impeding the teacher from teaching the other kids who want to say, "Can you be quiet? I want to learn! I don't want to grow up to be a dummy! I want to be able to say a whole sentence without using the word 'like'!" They can't do that, because we leave in the moldy blueberries instead of taking them out.
-->--'''Judge Judy:''', ''Series/JudgeJudy''

-->-- '''Ross Scott''', ''WebVideo/RosssGameDungeon'', regarding an NPC in ''VideoGame/{{Strife}}'' who gives you a sidequest that makes the game UnwinnableByDesign when you complete it.

-->--''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', "Auto Erotic Assimilation"