“Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.” WellsLawSocialChangeProgressWell BeingOrganismsPreservationCautiousSocial SystemsProgress And Change Book:Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India Source: Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India
“The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.” SocialChangeDespairRadicalSocial ChangeDiscontentOrganizer Author:Saul Alinsky
“The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert of the experts. Personally I am beginning to think there is more danger in lagging than in speeding up cultural change to keep pace with mechanical change.” ThinkingLongSocialChangeDangerStandingRateDeterminedSpeedExpertsCustomsPaceSpeedingCultural ChangeSpeeding Up Author:Mary Barnett Gilson
“Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.” WantStatesLawPurposeOrderDiesSocialGoalChangeEconomyInformationPolicySourceEconomicsResponsibleAimInstitutionsAssumingLeavingGravesReformCorporationsNeighborhoodMutualCurrencyIrrelevantManufacturingReformationGarageVinesRenderingPermacultureOpen SourceEconomic Reforms Author:Kevin Carson
“The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.” InspirationalDifferentActionOrderSocialChangePoorPovertySocietyDemandGenerousChanging The WorldMaking A DifferenceReliefTheologianMaking ChangesSocial Order Author:Gustavo Gutiérrez
“The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.” MenHumansWellsEndsCultureSocialChangeHuman BeingsLibertyDiversityDignityUltimateSocial JusticeWell BeingHuman LifeRevolutionarySocial ChangeSanctityHuman DignitySanctity Of LifeSanctity Of Human Life Book:My Disillusionment in Russia Source: My Disillusionment in Russia
“Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis - a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams.” MenDreamPoliticalSocialChangeStruggleEconomicCreatingMen And WomenCrisisNervousTrendsBreakdownEcologicalNervous BreakdownEcological Crisis Author:Bella Abzug
“We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along; still adoring whatever is behind us. We insist upon worshipping 'the God of our fathers.' Why not the God of our children? Does eternity only stretch one way?” WayChildrenDoeStillsPastFacesFatherForceSocialChangeBehindsEternityOur ChildrenShouldersResistanceOne WayWhy NotStatus QuoOur FatherReluctantStumblingRelics Book:The Home Source: The Home
“Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.” ArtSelfSocialChangeCommunityFunctionPrimariesRedefining Author:Thomas McEvilley
“A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.” PeopleThinkingSocialChangeMusicHistoryHappenedSocietyMusicianResponsibleSixtySocial ChangeWrong Reasons Author:Steve Winwood
“See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking” SocialChangeDrinkingModerationJoyousSocial LifeGleeDebauchery Book:Life and Works Source: Life and Works
“Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated to society's goals to a precious being who must be protected from unreasonable social demands. Childhood has come to be seen as a special period of life, rather than as a temporary state of no lasting importance for adulthood.” YearsChildrenStatesPastSocialGoalChangeChildhoodSpecialChangedPeriodsDemandAdultsImportanceIllErasLastingTemporaryConceptionProtectedAdulthoodOver The PastUnreasonable Author:Sandra Scarr