Top 1200 Social Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.

I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.

And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work.

Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

I always try to be a champion of social change and anything that brings awareness to a really dire situation.

Small businesses forget how to be social. Everyone tries to do social media when they should just try being social. To be successful with social media, you have to treat each individual person just like you would in real life by establishing a genuine connection with them.

Midwives not only save lives. They are also actors of social change.

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

I'm not pretending I can change the world, or to be an expert on social and political affairs. But I certainly have a right to say when something is wrong.

I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

I think that we should remember that social change can happen when people join together with some strength.

Anyone driving great social change, willingly or not, is going to be a fascinating contradictory mix of idealism and ego.

When the environment makes gender salient, there is a ripple effect on the mind. We start to think of ourselves in terms of our gender, and stereotypes and social expectations become more prominent in the mind. This can change self-perception, alter interests, debilitate or enhance ability, and trigger unintentional discrimination. In other words, the social context influences who you are, how you think and what you do.

History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen foresee what time is thus bringing, and try to shape institutions and mold men's thoughts and purposes in accordance with the change that is silently coming on. The unwise are those who bring nothing constructive to the process, and who greatly imperil the future of mankind by leaving great questions to be fought out between ignorant change on one hand and ignorant opposition to change on the other.

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

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.

Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.

The 'Grace of Kings' begins as a very dark, complicated world filled with injustices - among them the oppressed position of women - but gradually transforms into something better through a series of revolutions. But since real social change takes a long time, even by the end of the book, only the seeds of deep change have been planted.

It is a fact that, in the West, we live in a capitalist society, but that does not mean that we cannot be guided by the idea of a social conscience in our work. Yes, fashion design requires consumers to consume, but we can do our bit for society by running our companies in a socially responsible way, and by creating products that promote respect for social and environmental issues. There is also the possibility for power and influence to be a force for change.

I am unapologetic about the need for social change, greater inclusion, and equity.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially it implies social difference--it presumes and implies the presence of social division. Some can be free only in so far as there is a form of dependence they can aspire to escape.

Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

I grew up in a family that believed that art should be used as an instrument for social change.

Cornelius Castoriadis, the great French social philosopher of Greek origin, was asked once by an exasperated interviewer: "What do you want, Mr. Castoriadis - to change humanity?" He answered: "No, God forbid, I only want humanity to change itself, as it has done so many times in the past." I would be inclined to answer the same way.

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.

I think the greatest work in social psychology from the 1950s and '60s is enormously important. I wish every high school kid could take a course in social psychology. I think we're making enormous strides in understanding the brain. These aren't yet giving us great insights, but I feel like we're on the verge of it. In five or ten years this basically searching the brain is really going to change things.

King-ian nonviolence is a way of thinking and living and is not confined to the work of social and systemic change.

People want me to shut up, but I won't. I believe social change is possible; that's why I'm an activist.

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?

Even small efforts to bring about a change in the social fabric eventually reap large fruits.

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

The social body persists although the component cells may change.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart

The dominance of daughters in the country has started rising. This is a good social change.

I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society.

People like me in the entertainment industry can contribute to social change through our work.

For many of these people the social is just a mirror of themselves. I'm not against the social, but I want something genuinely social, not something that has been fetishized as social so that a group of people can feel better about themselves.

Policy should not aim to change the cultural character and social fabric of Canada.

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical.

Social change isn't something you should do just to help pad a resume. Follow your passion.

Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.

The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which, while it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well.

It's not the 'nice' guy who brings about real social change. 'Nice' guys look nice because they're conforming. It's the 'bad' guys, who only look nice a hundred years later, that are the real Dynamic force in social evolution.

It is certainly true that conservative Christians are much more likely to doubt the reality of climate change than mainline Christians or the unaffiliated. But when we control for political affiliation and for the important role of thought leaders in determining our opinions on social issues such as climate change, most of the faith-related bias disappears.

Indeed, the best practical reason to think that social media can help bring political change is that both dissidents and governments think they can. All over the world, activists believe in the utility of these tools and take steps to use them accordingly. And the governments they contend with think social media tools are powerful, too, and are willing to harass, arrest, exile, or kill users in response.

I definitely feel that films and TV shows can bring about social change.

Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it.