#movements

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#social-movements #change

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him. ↗

— Henry Villard

#come #details #did #familiarity #flattered

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#believe #change #himself #i #i believe

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#bring #duo #employed #fore #movements

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#borders #crime #degradation #movements #narcotics

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#anything #art #birth #communication #comparison

And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used. ↗

— Ted Demme

#camera #colors #favorite #late #lit

Calling resists privatization by insisting on the totality of faith. Calling resists politicization by demanding a tension with every human allegiance and association. Calling resists polarization by requiring an attitude toward, and action in, society that is inevitably transforming because it is constantly engaged. Grand Christian movements will rise and fall. Grand campaigns will be mounted and grand coalitions assembled. But all together such coordinated efforts will never match the influence of untold numbers of followers of Christ living out their callings faithfully across the vastness and complexity of modern society. ↗

— Os Guinness

#calling #gospel #movements #vocation #work

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#body #consist #descriptive #does #face

In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#activities #activity #borders #businesses #economic