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“We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.”

“Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.”

Mean Social Grows Change Conditions Eternal Conscience Radical Social Change Vessel Social Life Radical Change Social Conditions

Book:A Preface to Politics

Source: A Preface to Politics

“We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.”

Way Literature Social Difficult Class Pregnancy Egypt Social Change Social Class

Author:Naguib Mahfouz

“It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.”

“The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?”

Thinking Social Creating Remains Commit Brands Social Change Pillars Private Sector Casualties Outdated

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.”

Made Enough Social Sound Economy Regret Resources Sick Educational Social Change Abiding

Book:John Major: The Autobiography

Source: John Major: The Autobiography

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

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Book:The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

Source: The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.”

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.”

Enough Social Revolution Fabric Social Change Adjustment Unrest Social Unrest

Author:John Boyd Orr

“Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.”

“I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.”

America Political Spirit Social Originals Committed Engaged Courageous Social Change 1960s Analysts Audacious Irreverent Astute

Author:Camille Paglia

“Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.”

Country Social Responsibility Commitment Sells Financial Credit Practicals Social Change Default Financial Markets Credit Default Swap

Author:George Papandreou

“Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.”

Culture Social Causes Reflection Pops Social Change Pop Culture Popular Culture

Author:John Podhoretz

“If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.”

People Ifs Thinking Art Culture Asks Social Social Change

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.”

Change Mankind Redemption Resolution Teamwork Collaboration Cooperation Social Change Win Win Cooperation Teamwork Cooperation And Teamwork Cooperation And Collaboration

Book:Man's Peril, 1954-55

Source: Man's Peril, 1954-55

“For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.”

People Way Firsts Social Novel Strange Tools Western China Contact Chinese Goods Vehicle Commerce Social Change

Author:Hu Shih

“I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.”

People Thinking Important Social Term Technology Generations Internet Factors Gaps Social Change Generation Gap

Author:Alex Steffen

“The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.”

Firsts Social Resistance Social Change Resistance To Change

Author:Gloria Steinem

“In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.”

People Ifs Way Want Different Soul Problem Government Social Causes Change Majors Reflection Different Ways Social Change Free Society Decadence Social Problems

Author:Cal Thomas

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

“One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.”

“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984”

People Feels Persons Social Peace Pride Clubs Addresses Educate Not Afraid Social Change San Francisco Commonwealth Humiliate Chavez

Author:Cesar Chavez

“Without community, there is no liberation.”

Change Community Liberation Collaboration Social Change

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.”

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Author:Emma Goldman

“..."Fun?" you ask. "Weren't feminists these grim-faced, humorless, antifamily, karate-chopping ninjas who were bitter because they couldn't get a man?" Well, in fact the problem was that all too many of them HAD gotten a man, married him, had his kids, and then discovered that, as mothers, they were never supposed to have their own money, their own identity, their own aspirations, time to pee, or a brain. And yes, some women indeed became bad-tempered as a result. After all, no anger, no social change.”

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Author:Susan J. Douglas

“The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.”

“Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change? What about wealth or accomplishment? And yet something about it rings true, finally—that what we want is to be brought into relationship, to be inside, within. Perhaps it’s true that nothing matters more to us than that.”

Source: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy

“But it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple.”

Culture Games Social Hours Simple Technology Ignorance Late Program Stupidity Assumption Score Social Change Plain And Simple

Book:Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.”

Way Social Understanding Effort Consciousness Models Structure Practicals Linked Social Change Paradigm

Author:Bell Hooks

“Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.”

Problem Government Passion Individual Social Depends Majors Institutions Solve Social Change Major Problems

Author:Margaret Mead

“Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world’s resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that’s the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change.”

“We need to make fun of and ridicule the media images that seek to keep us down, divide us against each other by age, class, and race, and insist that we spend so much psychic energy on our faces, clothes and bodies that nothing is left for ideas, social change, or politics.”

Needs Ideas Body Age Faces Energy Left Fun Social Race Class Media Clothes Divides Psychics Social Change Ridicule

Author:Susan J. Douglas

“The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.”

Self Body Faces Social Self Esteem Depends Perception Female Hatred Income Cures Imaginary Social Change Surgeons Self Hatred Self Perception Multiplying

Book:The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth

“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”

Way Wisdom Knowledge Learning Share Teaching Achieve Karma Buddhist Immortality Collaboration Social Change Tibetan Tibet Rules Of Life Sharing Knowledge

Author:Dalai Lama

“Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.”

“Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.”

Heart Social Change Economy Innovation Social Change

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Many hands make light work.”

Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...

“Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.”

Shows Belief Social Community Imagination Inspire Limits Despair Teamwork Collaboration Social Change

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.”

Needs Enough Change Community Forget Progress Achievement Ambition Sake Prosperity Aspiration Broads Collaboration Social Change Our Community Needs Of Others

Author:Cesar Chavez

“You are never strong enough that you don't need help.”

Needs Enough Helping Reality Strong Change Community Strength Collaboration Social Change Strong Enough Being Strong Need Help

Book:An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

“When I see brokenness, poverty and crime in inner cities, I also see the enormous potential and readiness for transformation and rebirth. We are creating an art form that comes from the heart and reflects the pain and sorrow of people's lives. It also expresses joy, beauty, and love. This process lays the foundation of building a genuine community in which people are reconnected with their families, sustained by meaningful work, nurtured by the care of each other and will together raise and educate their children. Then we witness social change in action.”

“I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the world is completely disproportionate to its size. We are the undisputed leaders of technological change. But with our abundance of talent and resources, we also have the opportunity to be the pioneers of social change and, ultimately, this may be our greatest contribution.”

“There is no joy in possession without sharing.”

Joy Change Share Possession Caring Collaboration Social Change

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it at which point they can become human too.”

People Men Humans Children Desire Social Sound Situation Enemy Conditions He Man Arms Manifest Inspirational Love Social Change Loving You Mississippi Misuse Loving Your Enemies

Author:Bayard Rustin

“But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation.”

“Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order”

Should School Order Social Education Share Active Construction Social Change Social Order

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953

“Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved.”

People Social Leader Produce Involved Majors Ordinary Productions Indispensable Social Change Ordinary People

Author:Anne Scott

“If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time was spent on teaching children how to describe (in simple modern English) the method whereby ethylene was converted into polythene in 1933 in the ICI laboratories at Northwich, and to discussing the enormous social changes which have resulted from this discovery, then I believe that we should be training future leaders in this country to face the world of tomorrow far more effectively than we are at the present time.”

“When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change.”

Culture Social Development Evolution Dominant Social Change Social Development

Author:Fred Polak

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