quotes about Power To Change

“I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.”

“To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.”

Source : William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.101, Modern Library

“Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they're so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.”

“Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.”

“Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?”

“What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life”

“I'm going to preach there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from, and no Redemption because there was no Fall, and no Judgment because there wasn't the first two. Nothing matters but that Jesus was a liar.”

“The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.”

“A poem is a frozen moment melted by each reader for themselves to flow into the here and now.”

“Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.”

Source : Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2005.