“Everyone can make a real difference. Your voice is needed in a global movement that can change their world.” WorldRealVoiceDifferencesMovementNeededAidsHivDevastatedHiv Aids Author:Pierce Brosnan
“The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.” NeedsStatesDifferencesPartyMovementLimitsTeaPerceiveRecognizingTea PartyTea Party Movement Author:Mike Lee
“There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.” PoliticalDifferencesSawsStreetsMovementWallResponseObjectivesSpontaneousOutburstOccupy Wall StreetOccupy Movement Author:David Harvey
“A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement and repose.” EnergyDifferencesLinesMovementExpressionGraphicReposeVerticalHorizontalDeviate Author:Walter J. Phillips
“Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur either in them or in our relationship to them. Objects and circumstances which remain absolutely constant relative to the observer, unchanged either by his own movement or by external events, are in general difficult and perhaps always impossible to perceive. What we perceive easily is difference and change and difference is a relationship.” FirstsDifficultDifferencesImpossibleEventsMovementObjectsCircumstancesConstantStatementsDataPerceiveRelativeOur RelationshipObserversInitialsSensoryDerivatives Book:Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry Source: Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry
“We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.” ThinkingDifferencesPowerfulImpossibleMovementConformityVigorousCemetery Author:Joseph Stalin
“It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most women's disadvantage immediately returned to biological determinism when those differences were to the most women's advantage.” MadeDifferencesMovementAdvantageReputationIronicDisadvantagesDeterminismIrrelevance Author:Warren Farrell
“Sometimes the difference between two candidates is an important one in the immediate sense, and then I believe trying to get somebody into office, who is a little better, who is less dangerous, is understandable. But never forgetting that no matter who gets into office, the crucial question is not who is in office, but what kind of social movement do you have. Because if you have a powerful social movement, it doesn't matter who is in office.” IfsTryingBelieveKindLittlesTwoImportantSometimesMatterI BelieveSocialDifferencesForgetPowerfulDangerousMovementOfficeCandidatesNever ForgetCrucialSocial Movements Author:Howard Zinn
“Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because it was so clearly a religiously inspired movement that entered the public arena and made a major difference in American life.” WantMadeTodayChristianDifferencesReligiousRightsTroubleMovementMajorsInspiredLibertarianCivil RightsMake SenseRemoveBiblicalSecularArenaPublic LifeCivil Rights MovementAmerican LifeTrouble Making Author:Bruce L. Shelley
“Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.” IfsIdeasBeliefEnergyDifferencesJusticeResultsOpinionMovementExpressionBirthOffersEnthusiasmSpeakersIncitement Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“The difference between film and theater is that in film, an actor is sort of under a magnifying glass and everything that they do, just the smallest movement, is very detectible.” FilmActorsDifferencesMovementTheaterGlassesSmallestMagnifyingMagnifying Glass Author:Olivia Thirlby