Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Land

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

Bill Nye

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

Billy Crudup

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

Dan Ariely

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Andrzej Wajda

Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.

Clay Shirky

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...

Doris Lessing

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

David Ogden Stiers

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

Angelina Jolie

We are at a unique threshold in human history, where the crisis we face in Africa is matched only by our degree of hope that we can and will be a force for positive change, ... I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere.

Juan Williams

When you stop and look at so much of the kind of activism that has been triggered, the Tea Party and the like, as a result of Obama's efforts - TARP, the stimulus package, and now the health care reform - there is a lot of sense this government is changing.

Ashley Goforth

We want to promote activism through different mediums.

Jake Lehman

What we're really trying to do is build student activism and get students passionate about their community through arts and music, and other forms of outreach.

Dixon Osburn

There are many buses ahead of us yet. As we continue to confront inequality and segregation in our country, we still have the stellar example of Rosa Parks' gracious activism to guide and inspire us.

Ted Cruz

You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution.

Tawakkol Karman

I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.

Eve Ensler

I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves.

Gunter Grass

For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own intensity. I happen to be especially attuned to and engaged with the society in which I live. Both my writing and my drawing are invariably mixed up with politics, whether I want them to be or not.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We know how God would act if he were in our place - he has been in our place.

David Miliband

Everything about my politics has been about the future

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

Ben Vereen

Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Freedom must be demanded and defended, by those who have been denied it and by those who are already free

Dean Koontz

What has been is no more. Change has come.

Ashleigh Brilliant

What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.

Artie Shaw

Any more would have been less.

Alexander McCall Smith

Everything has been something before.