[T]he ideals and desires of the majority define the structure of society as it is; a would-be mass movement that pursues a different path will reliably find itself failing to attract members, while a mass movement that reshapes its message to attract a large audience will inevitably turn into a mechanism for replicating the existing order of things.
John Michael GreerTag: social-change
Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.
Jess C. ScottTag: humor life truth friendship insightful love women beauty humanity society romance relationships human-nature self self-discovery reflection reflective meaning sense insight self-confidence young-adult humankind postmodern social-change life-and-death reflections modern-society modernism modernity self-love superficiality young-adult-literature thieves sensibility human-behavior superficial series thief-of-love thievery elven thief urban-fantasy young-adult-fiction young-adult-novels rogue thief-at-night elven-charm urban-fantasy-series ya-urban-fantasy young-adult-series
I assume that in great men whose names I dare not mention, the anarchic element was very powerful. You see, when fundamental changes are to occur in law, custom, and society, they presuppose a great distancing from established principles. And the anarch, should he take any action, is capable of working this lever.
Ernst JüngerTag: social-change ernst-jünger anarch
Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.
Ernst JüngerTag: history hope social-change ernst-jünger
Only the lonely, who can teach us, to not ambiguous.
Emha Ainun NadjibTag: social-change
What good is science if not expand one's soul so that she behaves like an ocean that holds the trash. What good is intelligence if not enlarge one's personality so that he was increasingly able to understand other people?
Emha Ainun NadjibTag: social-change
Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.
Albert BanduraTag: psychology social-change albert-bandura personal-change social-learning-theory
Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.
Paul CollierTag: development social-change aid
Launching a turnaround takes courage. I cannot measure that and so it is not going to be included in my analysis, but behind the moments of change there are always a few people within these societies who have decided to try to make a difference.
Paul CollierTag: courage heroism poverty social-change
And so a miserable but possible scenario is that countries in the bottom billion oscillate between the traps and limbo, perhaps switching in the process from one trap to another..
Let me be clear: we cannot rescue them. The societies of the bottom billion can only be rescued from within. In every society of the bottom billion there are people working for change, but usually they are defeated by the powerful internal forces stacked against them. We should be helping the heroes. So far, our efforts have been paltry: through inertia, ignorance, and incompetence, we have stood by and watched them lose.
Let me be clear: we cannot rescue them. These societies of the bottom billion can only be rescued from within.
Tag: social-change
« prima precedente
Pagina 3 di 7.
prossimo ultimo »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.