Social Change Quotes - Page 12

• I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

  Alex Steffen

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Interview, edition.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

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• In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

  Cal Thomas

  Change, Reflection, Government

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• Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

  Petra Kelly

  Violence, Return, Conflict

  Petra Karin Kelly (1984). “Fighting for Hope”, p.31, South End Press

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

  John Boyd Orr

  Social Unrest, Fabric, Revolution

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brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

  Simon Mainwaring

  Thinking, Creating, Pillars

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• It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Two, America

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• In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

  Josiah Strong

  Change, Europe, Earthquakes

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• Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in the real world, therefore the conjunction of the two is desirable and should be useful.

  Suzette Haden Elgin

  Real, Two, Tools

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• I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.

  Marla Maples

  Animal, Thinking, Together

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Class, Progress, Social

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• Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

  Jerry Brown

  Self, Community, Political

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

  Mac Thornberry

  Change, Senior, Today

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• Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.

  Jeffrey Jones

  Powerful, Czech Republic, Political

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• Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

  Andrew Vachss

  Change, Democracy, Journalism

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• I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.

  John Major

  Regret, Educational, Sick

  John Major (2013). “John Major: The Autobiography”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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