Quotes About Impact

Turns out that when something gets cheaper, or more efficient, we just end up using so much more of the stuff that the savings disappear under a wave of increased consumption. They call it the "Jevons Paradox"

Social movements are understood in relations to the openings they instigate in the political constellation of society as well as the closures that inevitably follow such openings.

You can tell that hold is effective because his face is red and the rest of his body is the color of a bottle of 2% milk.

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.

Awareness without action is worthless.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

That on any day you could pick there are thousands and thousands of little deaths, tiny tragedies, and that all of them matter.

Little crimes like mine didn't matter anymore. Little deaths like yours didn't make a sound.

You can thank us by doing something serious with it

To Richard, in a sense, Mike was a god. He listened to his older cousin's war stories of rape and killing wide-eyed, fascinated beyond normal curiosity. The photos had a profound effect on Richard. They aroused him sexually in a way far more intense than the girlie magazines his brothers had.

was like being struck by a speeding train.

Killing with a knife is very personal; you actually are holding it as it goes in, and when death comes, you can feel your victim dying through the knife. It's like sex.

Some people make headlines while others make history.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. —Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind (1954)

humanity can be transformed by power and by powerlessness. Underlying

There is an important message here about the power of words, labels, rhetoric, and stereotyped labeling, to be used for good or evil. We need to refashion the childhood rhyme "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never harm me," to alter the last phrase to "but bad names can kill me, and good ones can comfort me.

Jedynym koniecznym warunkiem triumfu z?a jest to, ?eby dobrzy ludzie nie robili nic. (Edmund Burke)

What we think has a strong influence on what we feel. John

If you don't say anything it can't become important, but if you say it everyone's ever after got to walk round it like a pile of rocks in the living room.

illegitimate births rose by thirty per cent in Britain during wartime. Where eligible males were lacking, young boys became the objects of older women's affections; prisoners-of-war and 'even unattractive men suddenly found themselves successful and desired by women

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

I've come to believe that in life it's best to live for a purpose greater than oneself.