14 September 2009

Quotes for Changemakers II

"What we do for ourselves dies with us - what we do for others and the world remains and is immortal..." - Albert Pine

"…the culture of idealism is under siege, beset by materialism and narcissism and all the other isms of indifference and their defense mechanism knowingness, the smirk, the joke…Rock music to me is rebel music. But rebelling against what? In the Fifties it was sexual mores and double standards. In the Sixties it was the Vietnam War and racial and social inequality. What are we rebelling against now? If I am honest I'm rebelling against my own indifference. I am rebelling against the idea that the world is the way the world is and there's not a damned thing I can do about it. So I'm trying to do some damned thing." - Bono, Address to Harvard University Graduating Class, 11 June 2001

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell

"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground" - David Icke

"Only a rat can win a rat race - Michael Franti, Spearhead

"All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism." - unknown

"When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back" - William Greider, Debtor Nation

"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist" - Kenneth Boulding

"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made, and can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings" - Nelson Mandela

"Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up" - Anonymous [graffiti]

"Not everything that counts can be counted. Not everything that can be counted, counts" - Albert Einstein

"Mathematics misused can be no less lethal than arsenic" - William Krehm

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete" - Buckminster Fuller

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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