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Quotes About Impact

You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.
~ Judi Bari
Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.
~ Thomas Szasz
A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.
~ Charles Hamilton Houston
Since being diagnosed, I have done a greater good for society in eight years, than in my 37 years on earth.
~ O. J. Brigance
If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases.
~ David Suzuki
I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.
~ Samuel Wilson
If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much.
~ James H. Cone
Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.
~ Pericles
It is only logical that the pauperization of our soul and the soul of society coincide with the pauperization of the environment. One is the cause and the reflection of the other.
~ Paolo Soleri
Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.
~ Bede Griffiths
What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.
~ Jack Kemp
California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
~ Don DeLillo, White Noise
I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.
~ Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.
~ Ernest A. Fortin
We cannot go beyond the consumer society unless we first understand that obligatory public schools inevitably reproduce such a society, no matter what is taught in them.
~ Ivan Illich
The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
~ Walt Whitman
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
~ Edith Wharton
Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.
~ Leslie Caron
If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.
~ Dolores Huerta
If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.
~ Leymah Gbowee
We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.
~ Paul Tudor Jones
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?
~ Ani DiFranco