It takes six simpletons and one zealot to start a movement. —Anzia Yezierska More about this quote Tags: activism movements Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The question is not “Can you make a difference?” You already do make a difference. It’s just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet. —Julia Butterfly Hill More about this quote Tags: life purpose difference choices Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I’m against picketing, but I don’t know how to show it. —Mitch Hedberg More about this quote Tags: humor activism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it. —Martin Sheen More about this quote Tags: activism civil disobedience government personal change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Activism is my rent for living on this planet. —Alice Walker More about this quote Tags: activism responsibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Find your place on the planet, dig in, and take responsibility from there. —Gary Snyder More about this quote Tags: responsibility work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. —Thích Nhất Hạnh More about this quote Tags: life family connection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished. —Elia Kazan More about this quote Tags: strength soul survival spirit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We categorize everyone. We send the old here, the young there. We ship adolescents off to war. We send everyone to prison every day: the children to school, the parents to the office or the factory, the musicians to concert halls in the evening. —John Cage More about this quote Tags: war age prison Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don’t ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever were there, they are there still. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: poetry age joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was young, I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: learning curiousity age youth Greek ambition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I had known when I was twenty-one that I should be as happy as I am now, I should have been sincerely shocked. They promised me wormwood and the funeral raven. —Christopher Isherwood More about this quote Tags: age youth death shock Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age. —Margaret Atwood More about this quote Tags: wisdom silence age frivolity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Youth has to do with spirit, not age. Men of seventy or sixty are often more youthful than the young. Theirs is the real youth. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: age youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high-school class is running the country. —Kurt Vonnegut More about this quote Tags: fear power humor leadership terror peers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email