Slacktivisim Quotes & Sayings

The Kony campaign us an example of how powerful 'slacktivisim' can be, and demonstrates that, with enough worldwide awareness and social pressure, movements like this one have the power to make politicians move. It also makes the ignorant less so. No-one knew who Kony was before the campaign. The atrocities were happening, and it wasn't even a blip on the social consciousness radar. It's encouraging that there's a way to spread information like this so quickly. — Charlie Caruso

He was never the creator. He was an angel like ourselves - the first angel, true, the most powerful, but he was formed of Dust as we are, and Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself. Matter loves matter. It seeks to know more about itself, and Dust is formed. — Philip Pullman

We want a ship in these billows we inhabit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Glen Campbell told me, 'Stay out of the way of a good song.' I think it's true. If a song's good, don't overdo it. — Chris Isaak

Dawn in Mongolia was an amazing thing. In one instant, the horizon became a faint line suspended in the darkness, and then the line was drawn upward, higher and higher. It was as if a giant hand had stretched down from the sky and slowly lifted the curtain of night from the face of the earth. It was a magnificent sight, far greater in scale ... than anything that I, with my limited human faculties, could fully comprehend. — Haruki Murakami

WE WERE kids - but good kids. If I may say so myself. We're much smarter now, so smart it's pathetic. — Nescio

Glasses clinked and voices rubbed each other. — Maya Angelou

Do not try to get so much that you achieve nothing. Look — Teresa Of Avila

Domestic terrorism has opened new war zones, operating off the assumption that all Americans are potential terrorists. — Henry Giroux

You might at least acknowledge that I put my self in harm's way on your behalf, Evie' the deeper voice of Viscount Dare came from her other side.
Georgina stiffened. ' No you didn't. Go away now.'
'No, I didn't,' he repeated amiably, and nodded. ' Goodbye.'
'Wait!' Evelyn caught his arm. ' What do you mean, on my behalf?'
'I ... ah ... ' He glanced over her head at his wife. 'I don't mean anything. I have a mental disability. — Suzanne Enoch

But I like labels," she admitted. "They make everything so much clearer." Her sister Bree always told her she liked things to be wrapped up too neatly, and that part of the point of life was its messiness, its refusal to be wrapped up. Brett always took the advice with a grain of salt - it was probably Bree's excuse for a messy room, or for breaking up with boys she'd dated without actually telling them. — Cecily Von Ziegesar