Social Change Quotes
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Social Change Quotes & Sayings
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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
— Margaret Mead
People create social conditions and people can change them.
— Osonye Tess Onwueme
One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.
— Harold Holzer
Social and political change is an effect - it comes only after we change ourselves.
— Jeffrey Tucker
In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.
— Beth Simone Noveck
Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
— Bill Drayton
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?
— Robert Hughes
The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.
— Simon Mainwaring
Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
— Andrew Vachss
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
— Jessica Mitford
Even small efforts to bring about a change in the social fabric eventually reap large fruits.
— Narendra Modi
If people can be convinced to pick up dog sh*t, who knows what social change is possible?
— Franke James
Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development.
— Robert Zoellick
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
— Malcolm Fraser
You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world.
— Abhijit Naskar
I wanted to use sports for social change.
— Billie Jean King
Poverty is not only a lack of money, it's a lack of sense of meaning.
— David Bornstein
Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.
— Malcolm Gladwell
The day I realized I could speak well, I decided I won't speak for myself anymore.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community.
— Terry Tempest Williams
The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.
— Rivera Sun
Apathy is not compatible with love
— Simon Tam
Rise to become human again, my friend. Become the human, that talks humans, acts humans and lives human.
— Abhijit Naskar
Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up.
— Vandana Shiva
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.
— Robert Kennedy
Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.
— Steve Winwood
Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.
— Jaggi Vasudev
Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.
— Harriet Lerner
How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it.
— Charles Eisenstein
Only the lonely, who can teach us, to not ambiguous.
— Emha Ainun Nadjib
Rather, they changed because they were embedded in social groups that made change easier.
— Charles Duhigg
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.
— Saul Alinsky
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.
— Naguib Mahfouz
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
— Muhammad Yunus
If money could have changed the world, money would have changed the world.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
I'm gonna keep Social Security without change, except I'm going to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse; same thing with Medicare.
— Donald Trump
Social change doesn't happen in the Arab region through dramatic confrontation, beating, or indeed, baring of breasts, but rather through negotiation.
— Shereen El Feki
Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them
— Bruno Latour
I used to see dolphins as cute, Smart and funny sea animals.
I know now that they're astute,
Divine beings, clever mammals. — Ana Claudia Antunes
Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur ...
— Elizabeth Janeway
Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.
— Gary L. Francione
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
— Jane Addams
The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.
— Penelope Lively
Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down.From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris — Martin Luther King Jr.
To stop a habit or a vice seeks freedom in yourself
— Miguel El Portugues
Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
— Liam Neeson
Technologies that change society are technologies that change interactions between people
— Cesar Hidalgo
Create the change you seek in the world.Be an ecopreneur.
Launch your dream green business. — John D. Ivanko
Social Media begins with a story - your story.
— Germany Kent
I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.
— Pamela Yates
You know there's always prejudice in a revolutionary movement.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
— Eve Ensler
Discrimination on the basis of age is as unacceptable as discrimination on the basis of any other aspect of ourselves that we cannot change.
— Ashton Applewhite
Social change comes through people.
— Paul Watson
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
— Bell Hooks
Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.
— David Byrne
Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.
— Marshall McLuhan
It is a smokescreen if someone believes that they can make change without identifying the root causes which influence social disorder.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
Revolutions are infinite.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.
— Anthony Giddens
When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
— Cameron Sinclair
Birth is to celebrate, death is to mourn - Menu 8 (Death: Loved Ones!)
— Santosh Avvannavar
My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.
— Frances Power Cobbe
Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.
— Faye Wattleton
I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
A handful of lion-hearts can wake the whole world up.
— Abhijit Naskar
Another day.How long are you gonna scroll down?
Semicolon
Smile — Sanhita Baruah
Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.
— Arianna Huffington
The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
— Gloria Steinem
In the pursuit of breaking free from all the shackles of man-made bondages, science is the most effective tool we have till this date.
— Abhijit Naskar
