Social Transformation Quotes

#1. To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.

Antonin Scalia

#2. Turkey is going through an incredible economic, political and social transformation. What is most important is that Turkey has been the owner of this transformation. Ownership has been the key to success.

Ali Babacan

#3. Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

Deepak Chopra

#4. Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed ...

Hizkias Assefa

#5. Every therapeutic intervention is an act of social transformation.

Harville Hendrix

#6. One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation. That's why oral history is so valuable.

Alix Kates Shulman

#7. Most of the states of Europe had no prospect of social transformation, and thus little ability to rival or counter the Nazis and the Soviets.

Timothy Snyder

#8. Ethics is at the center of both spiritual practice and social transformation. Without a strong ethical foundation, we inevitably fall into contradictions-between means and ends, between our actions and our ideals. (p. 9)

Donald Rothberg

#9. Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#10. The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.

Satish Kumar

#11. If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

Van Jones

#12. I believe that personal healing is a path to social transformation.

Daniel Beaty

#13. Nelson Mandela understood that social transformation and economic transformation go hand in hand.

Klaus Schwab

#14. If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!

C. Wagner

#15. I think, you know, architecture should not just be something that follows up on events but be a leader of events ... by implementing an architectural action, you actually are making a transformation in the social fabric and in the political fabric. Architecture becomes an instigator.

Lebbeus Woods

#16. Only love effects true inner transformation, not duress, guilt, shunning, or social pressure.

Richard Rohr

#17. How many of my basic principles were upset by this change in my attitude toward the Christian Social movement! My views with regard to anti-Semitism thus succumbed to the passage of time, and this was my greatest transformation of all.

Adolf Hitler

#18. Wars and conflicts begin in the mind, then they are expressed in words and then executed through physical action, so personal transformation is intricately connected with the social and political transformation.

Satish Kumar

#19. The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#20. When we start building perceptions based on our own experiences and judgements and not by the influence of fake media reports, that's the indication of our transformation into a mature society.

Sukant Ratnakar

#21. Creativity connects me to my truest self and vulnerability. There is nothing more personally liberating, than reaching for my face and peeling off the social mask that hides my; shadow self, pain and weakness. When i produce from this place of truth, the results transform both creator and beholder.

Jaeda DeWalt

#22. Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

Terence McKenna

#23. All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.

Bryant McGillns

#24. If we define society as a human community, then the transformation of individual attitudes and values represents meaningful social change.

Leslie Weisman

#25. Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.

Joel Garreau

#26. As a political movement, feminism seeks to transform society by challenging and changing social institutions. Religion, on the other hand, seeks first to transform individuals through a personal relationship with God, which then results in a desire to work for the transformation of society.

Helen LaKelly Hunt

#27. If groups are not gospel-centered and gospel-fueled, they are merely a social outlet for people, and they lack the power for transformation. So

Matt Chandler

#28. It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#29. Indeed, a culture that does not promote the ability to make progress and to be open to other social realities, so as to welcome its own transformation serenely, becomes closed in on itself.

Robert Sarah

#30. Love is an expression of power. We can use it to transform our world.

Ericka Huggins

#31. God's principles of national transformation will give the opportunity to make positive changes in the country, overcoming crisis in politics, economy, social services and other spheres.

Sunday Adelaja

#32. A commitment to love and justice demands the transformation of social structures as well as of hearts.

Mary E. Hunt

#33. People who represent social organization in a country are a force in that country

Sunday Adelaja

#34. The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve.

Terence McKenna

#35. Resistence can start and happen everywhere and whenever you want.

Roem Topatimasang

#36. Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values, its social and political structures, its art, its key institutions - rearranges itself. We are currently living through such a time.

Peter Drucker