Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.
Jonathan FranzenTags: reading integrity isolation growth self-knowledge social-change
Les idées, elles vont et viennent sans laisser de traces si elles ne sont pas imprégnées dans le sang, les entrailles,
les seins et les plus obscures profondeurs des reins.
Tags: social-change
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
Jane AddamsTags: social-justice social-change
In an age when the difference between prince and peasant was thought to be in the stars, Mr Tzara, art was naturally an affirmation for the one and a consolation to the other; but we live in an age when the social order is seen to be the work of material forces and we have been given an entirely new kind of responsibility, the responsibility of changing society.
Tom StoppardTags: social-change
Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is a new phenomenon, which is why the phrase "the good old days" has passed from cliché to self-parody.
Anna QuindlenTags: society morals self-deception prejudice class-warfare immigration crime cliches parody social-change xenophobia social-norms exclusion nostaliga
We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.
Rivera SunTags: inspirational activism philosophy protest action social-justice social-change
Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to work to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: time social-change
Perhaps…the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: social-change extremism
Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are likely to get is a demand for a detailed architectural blueprint of how an alternative system would work, down to the nature of its financial instruments, energy supplies, and policies of sewer maintenance. Next, you are likely to be asked for a detailed program of how this system will be brought into existence. Historically, this is ridiculous. When has social change ever happened according to someone’s blueprint? It’s not as if a small circle of visionaries in Renaissance Florence conceived of something they called “capitalism,” figured out the details of how the stock exchange and factories would someday work, and then put in place a program to bring their visions into reality. In fact, the idea is so absurd we might well ask ourselves how it ever occurred to us to imagine this is how change happens to begin.
David GraeberTags: planning capitalism anarchism social-change utopia tina blueprint centralization
we are, in any case, only one of the forces acting in society
Errico MalatestaTags: politics anarchism social-change
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