Renata Adler Quotes

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.

There are ways that we can manipulate the corporate media to talk about the issues that we care about.

The personal is political, but only to a point.

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to what that accomplishes.

I felt that what is personal is political.

Everything I do has an underlying political question.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together.

... politics of meaning

It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.

I'm drawn to making films that in some way move the social conversation.

The direction of the country isn't controlled by one person on top making decisions. It's a mass movement of people making a lot of individual decisions that add up to something broader.

Films can't change the society; they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.

Everything I do is political.

I don't think we set out to make 'The East' in order to necessarily change people's hearts; I don't know how much movies actually change people's hearts. We wanted to make something that was thrilling and got you to thinking.

I was waiting for the world to change. I'm no longer waiting; I'm part of that movement. I think our role as performers and entertainers is so much bigger.

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.

I'd already been doing work in the community... But when it comes to how to actually amplify your voice, when I saw what Colin Kaepernick did and the amount of coverage and conversation around it, that's when I truly realized how much influence we have as athletes.

You're starting to see more and more athletes recognizing their reach and how much leverage and power that they have in their celebrity and in their platform. And more and more guys are trying to use that leverage to better their communities, to better this country and are speaking out on injustice.

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

It is important to keep protesting, to keep forcing a conversation in the public arena. In any case, when you know what the right thing to do is, or that something must be said, it can be immoral and dangerous not to act.

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

[Occupy Wall Street] had an impact on consciousness. It was not effective in realizing change.