Quotes About Impact

When I hear an interview that I've done, and I've said 'like' a bunch of times, it just cheapens the sentiment.

Force is an ill broom to sweep anything clean with.

We have to say that what happens to women matters to everyone and it matters a lot.

About violence, what it feels like to be nothing to someone else. What it feels like to be a consequence of someone else's dissociated rage, disconnected fury.

Lasting social and cultural change is spread by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Non c'è dolore inflitto coscientemente a qualcuno che non ci torni indietro decuplicato

mudanças sociais e culturais duradouras são obra de pessoas comuns que fazem coisas extraordinárias.

Para muitas pessoas, o contato com as histórias nunca antes contadas de abuso e desigualdade presentes na peça reforçou uma necessidade de assumir a responsabilidade por seus próprios papéis no ciclo de violência – como vítimas e sobreviventes, testemunhas ou agentes.

esse não era só um monólogo, só uma peça, mas também um poderoso catalisador de conscientização e justiça.

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Family planning experts, in calculating the effects of contraceptive campaigns, estimate the number of births averted by calculating the pregnancies that would have occurred if contraceptives had not been adopted; the concept of births averted is not very meaningful to a peasant family in a Third World country that is being urged to adopt a preventive innovation like family planning.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

Não havia qualquer dúvida que, se ele me tivesse batido diretamente na roda, eu teria sido projetado para debaixo do carro e atropelado. Poderia muito bem ter morrido. Tínhamos passado pelas mais terríveis condições rodoviárias do mundo e acabáramos por ter o nosso primeiro acidente numa estrada canadiana…

STATEMENTS Words that come forth from the mouth regardless of who spoke them, are important.... Words should not be wasted because: there is a word in those words that is the word meant for you to build your walls in this world

My story is one of many thousands, and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon.

small talk comes from small bones

Nothing matter but the quality/ of the affection—/in the end—that has carved the trace in the mind dove sta memoria

A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.

Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportioned to their ability AS WRITERS. This is their main use. All other uses are relative, and temporary, and can be estimated only in relation to the views of a particular estimator.

Literature is news that stays news.

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

Not only must we move forward in a monumental manner more copies of the Book of Mormon, but we must move boldly forward into our own lives and throughout the earth more of its marvelous messages.

But when a person commits suicide, he does not do violence only to himself; he inflicts death upon those whom he least considered would be so afflicted.