Quotes About Impact

How does a culture change when new technologies are introduced to it? And is it always desirable for a culture to accommodate itself to the demands of new technologies?

Technological change is neither additive nor subtractive. It is ecological. I mean "ecological" in the same sense as the word is used by environmental scientists. One significant change generates total change.

Lo mejor de la televisión es su basura y nadie ni nada está seriamente amenazado por ella. Porque no medimos una cultura por su producción de trivialidades no encubiertas, sino por lo que juzga significativo.

We may say then that the contribution of the telegraph to public discourse was to dignify irrelevance and amplify impotence. But this was not all: Telegraphy also made public discourse essentially incoherent

to whom will the technology give greater power and freedom? And whose power and freedom will be reduced by it?

But the telegraph demands that we burn its contents.

Surrounding every technology are institutions whose organization—not to mention their reason for being—reflects the world-view promoted by the technology.

Every medium of communication, I am claiming, has resonance, for resonance is metaphor writ large.

M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. (68).

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

It is not my purpose here to document the destruction caused by war [...] The point is to ask ourselves why these accounts have not had greater effect. [...] Why is it that many of us are deeply moved by visual art, fiction, and firsthand accounts of destruction and yet accept war as a means of resolving conflict or defending ourselves?

Ill-fortune carries with it a stench and leaves a wide berth around its victims,

I don't make a film to make people like it. I make a film to make people think

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

As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.