Social Change Quotes

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

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

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

Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.

You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.

Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from itself.

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brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

You can use principles of the free market to drive social change.

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

There's a difference between Vaselining the rapee and catching the rapist.

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Social change involves helping people see new options for making life wonderful that are less costly to get needs met.

The spirituality that we need to develop for social change is one that mobilizes us for social change.

Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

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.

Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community.

I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.

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

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

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

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

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

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

Can poetry be a form of social change? I don't know the answer to that. I do think art can have a social impact even if it may be difficult to see the effects of that impact, to assess or measure it.

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

Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

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.

I am inspired by those who dedicate their lives to bringing about positive social change throughout the world.

Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.

[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.

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

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

There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

I think, by and large, the way big social change happens is every individual person taking on whatever little piece they can take on.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

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

The military defeat of an oppressive regime is important, but it does not answer our problems. It is where our problems begin, since social change cannot be reduced to a military solution.

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

Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

5 Ways To Build Your Brand on Social Media:1 Post content that add value2 Spread positivity3 Create steady stream of info4 Make an impact5 Be yourself

Freedom of Speech doesn't justify online bullying. Words have power, be careful how you use them.

What you post online speaks VOLUME about who you really are. POST with intention. REPOST with caution.

If we all work together there is no telling how we can change the world through the impact of promoting positivity online.

You are responsible for everything you TWEET and RETWEET.

Don't promote negativity online and expect people to treat you with positivity in person.