Social Change

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela

Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. Karl Marx

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. Karl Marx

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority. Eleanor Roosevelt

What you don’t do can be a destructive force. Eleanor Roosevelt

For it isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it. Eleanor Roosevelt

Individual change threatens the ego. Social change threatens inequities. James Teufel

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. George Bernard Shaw

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. Thomas H. Huxley

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. Karl Marx

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. Mark Twain

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. Albert Einstein

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Martin Luther King Jr.

To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do. Let us, then, be up and doing. Maya Angelou

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. John Stuart Mill

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. John Stuart Mill

As new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions, must advance also, and keep pace with the times. Thomas Jefferson

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. Carl Jung

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mohandas Gandhi

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. Kurt Lewin