Quotes of: Social-movements Keyword

Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.

P. J. O'Rourke

What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

Kate Millett

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

Juliette Binoche

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

Huey Newton

'Jersey Boys' was a lot of running around and a lot of energy, but it was more stylized movement.

Erich Bergen

You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.

Bayard Rustin

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

Blaise Pascal

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

Noam Chomsky

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.

David Bohm

Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.

Karen DeCrow

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

Beau Bridges

I'm very close to the pro-life movement.

Roger Mahony

You know there’s always prejudice in a revolutionary movement.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The women's movement in England was totally against Margaret Thatcher.

Gloria Steinem

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

Holly Near

When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.

Marianne Williamson

It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty….The compromise eventually made was one of the most interesting and even curious cases in history. It w...

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

No one is charismatic. Someone becomes charismatic in history, socially. The question for me is once again the problem of humility. If the leader discovers that he is becoming charismatic not because of his or her qualities but because mainly he or s...

We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial social role. It was to foster and protect the kind of values for which a philistine social order had precious little ti...

Terry Eagleton

Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communication are even more ideology-laden than changes in our modes of transportation. Introduce the alphabet to a culture and you change its cognitive habits, i...

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.

Britt Daniel