quotes about Social Change

“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.”

Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.174, Oxford University Press

“I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.”

“Don’t let a first-set victory lead into a second-set slump”

“I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.”

“I guess I'm also obligated to note that the experience of sex workers who are not upper/middle class/white probably have much worse conditions than anything that's portrayed commonly in media/what I experienced.”

“The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.”

Source : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.283, Bloomsbury Publishing

“The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.”

Source : "New Again: Tom Brady". Interview with Matthew McConaughey, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 27, 2012.

“I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.”

“A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.”