Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.

I'm not interested in current events per se, but I am interested in how certain aspects of social or public life that might seem ultra-contemporary actually take their place in a long American continuum.

I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

I hope to be remembered as someone who promoted positive change in Mexican business and society - even if this is not currently understood.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

It's not rocket science. It's social science.

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

All societies are historical.

No one doubts the enormity of the social challenges we face around the world but one critical element of our response must be the generation of new thinking and ideas. Yet creating the conditions that make this possible is not simple.

I am a sociologist, God help me.

When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

We've learned that project by project, you can't change millions and millions of lives.

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

Business can be a source of progressive change.

If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status quo. I want to help people, to work with institutions or create ones when they don't exist.

I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.'

Science of Society

I want to be known as a catalyst for change.