Quotes About Impact

If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath than the factory model, the corporate model, the penitentiary model, which by my lights are one and the same.

I believe the word used wrongly distorts the world.

what mattered, what really mattered, was that I could just maybe save one person. Nobody could save every one, but I could help individuals, and that, when I got right down to it, was a hell of a thing.

I updrive a Bronco. How environmentally irresponsible of you.

Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.

I have no doubt that the elimination of poverty and deprivation is possible by 2020.

cases certainly can be found of large firms and multinational corporations (MNCs) that may have undermined the efforts of the poor to build their livelihoods, the greatest harm they might have done to the poor is to ignore them altogether.

Silence can never be taken back.

Words provide a voice to our deepest feelings. I tell you, words have started and stopped wars. Words have built and lost fortunes. Words have saved and taken lives. Words have won and lost great kingdoms. Even Buddha said, 'Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy.

Do what you can because there are many things that need doing.

Sloan wondered if newspapers weren't a little hypocritical, demanding one standard for others and another for themselves; he doubted that reporters had any idea of the anguish they could inflict with only one sentence

G. K. Chesterton's observation: "The simplification of anything is always sensational.

You won't change the whole world, but you'll change somebody's world - and for the better. And, just as inevitably, some of you won't. You'll park your principles in the long-term lot and spend your future taking advantage of people.

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Don't you get it? It doesn't fucking matter whether he's right or not. That's the scary part.

Well, apparently, I'm trying to fix the entire human race, one flaming asshole at a time.

Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology.

When a poacher kills an elephant, he doesn't just kill the elephant who dies. The family may lose the crucial memory of their elder matriarch, who knew where to travel during the very toughest years of drought to reach the food and water that would allow them to continue living. Thus one bullet may, years later, bring more deaths.

The more humans fill the world, the more we empty it.

An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books - might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it.

To live in the hearts we leave behind is to live forever.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.