“There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.” LittlesHelpingProblemActionTogetherLyingThreeBitsCan DoEnvironmentMovementLittle BitEnvironmentalCollectivesTogether We CanCollective Action Author:Clay Shirky
“And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to a movement for each person and open for everybody.” ThinkingMenPersonsArtistCan DoModernMovementOughtOne Man Book:Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute Source: Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute
“Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is likely, all unwittingly, to do the opposite, for bearing witness is lonely: it breeds feelings of superiority and moralistic anger against those who are not doing the same.” WorldFeelingsIndividualSocialCan DoMoralMovementLonelyOppositesWitnessSolidaritySuperiorityBearing Witness Author:Ellen Willis
“No president, not the smartest, best human being in the world can do it alone. You cannot take on this, the power that is in Washington, to billionaires and lobbyist, the military industrial complex, all of this money and power, you can`t do it. You need a mass movement of American who are looking in congress and we say directly.” WorldNeedsHumansPresidentCan DoHuman BeingsMilitaryMovementMassComplexesCongressBillionaireLobbyistsMilitary Industrial ComplexMoney And Power Author:Bernie Sanders
“What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution.” IfsHeartPersonsGrowsCan DoMovementRevolutionPlantSeedsOutrageFertileFertile Ground Author:Tim DeChristopher
“Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a sense of momentum, of going someplace. You hear a snatch of Beethoven and it has a sense of momentum that is unmistakably his. That's a nice quality if you can do it in fiction.” IfsWritingMovingCan DoFictionQualityNiceMovementYou Can Do ItMomentumWriting FictionKeep It Moving Author:John Updike
“I like to make my voice sound like a piece of tin that's been stuck on the side of a chair, lifted up as far as it would go and then let to spring - "doooiiinng." I like to make it into a piece of metal from time to time and I can do it, both with the movements in my throat and with, uh, my little toys... So I like to take it beyond just a voice, more into the realms of a weapon.” LittlesI CanSoundSidesVoiceCan DoPiecesMovementWeaponsSpringStuckRealmsChairsThroatMetalsToysI Can Do ItTin Author:Robert Plant
“Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too." And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenMadeCan DoRealizingCommunitySituationRolesTakenRightsSeeingMovementOughtEqualMen And WomenHeyEqual Rights Author:Julian Bond
“Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.” SocialCan DoMovementDumbSocial Movements Author:Saul Williams