Social Transformation Quotes

• Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Personal Transformation, Transformation, Social

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• The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.

  Satish Kumar

  Acting, Small Steps, Stopping

  Entrevista con Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. 14 de abril de 2009.

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• Al liberarnos de nuestro propio miedo, nuestra presencia libera automáticamente a los demás.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiración, Fuerza, Confianza

  Nelson Mandela (2011). "Nelson Mandela Por sí mismo: The Authorised Book of Quotations", p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

  Van Jones

  Mistake, Saint, Built

  "Bridging the gap between environmental and social justice" by Lauren Rabaino, mustangnews.net. April 4, 2008.

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• La no violencia no es pasividad estéril, sino una poderosa fuerza moral que propicia la transformación social.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Powerful, Passivity Is, Morality

  Martin Luther Discurso del Premio Nobel de la Paz de King Jr. en Oslo, Noruega, www.nobelprize.org. 10 de diciembre de 1964.

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• Every therapeutic intervention is an act of social transformation.

  Harville Hendrix

  Intervention, Therapeutic, Transformation

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• To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human rights, we hold as fundamental today.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Guerra, Derechos, Gobierno

  "RNC uses Thurgood Marshall speech to attack Supreme Court nominee Kagan" by Russell Berman, thehill.com. May 11, 2010.

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• I believe that personal healing is a path to social transformation.

  Daniel Beaty

  Believe, Healing, Path

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation. That's why oral history is so valuable.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Passion, People, Feelings

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• If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!

  C. Wagner

  Three, Violence, Wealth

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• To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.

  Antonin Scalia

  Sex, Decision, Gay Marriage

  "Who is Antonin Scalia and why is he out of touch with changing social views?" by Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2015.

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• Turkey is going through an incredible economic, political and social transformation. What is most important is that Turkey has been the owner of this transformation. Ownership has been the key to success.

  Ali Babacan

  Turkeys, Political, Important

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• I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences methodology that integrates science (third-person view) social transformation (second-person view) and the evolution of self (first-person view) into a coherent framework of consciousness-based action research

  Otto Scharmer

  Thinking, Self, Views

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• Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself.

  Fredric Jameson

  Winning, Degrees, Machines

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• Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed.

  Hizkias Assefa

  Ignorance, Profound, Justice

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• The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, Tools, Littles

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• Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Powerful, Practice, Two

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