Changing The World Quotes - Page 36

• You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

  Tom Robbins

  Always Trying, World, Said

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• The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world.

  James A. Baldwin

  People, Needs, Done

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• Love and death are very similar. They're the times in your life when you most want to believe in magic, when you yearn for some symbolic act or retrospective edit that can change the world you find yourself in.

  Michael Marshall Smith

  Believe, Magic, Finding Yourself

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• The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

  Susan Sontag

  Inspirational, Change, Community

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.243, Macmillan

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• Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change the world, but over time the world changes them. Soon they forget who they were; they forget the faith they once had. Then one day someone tells them the truth, but they don’t want to go back, because they’re comfortable in their new skin. Being a stranger in this world is never easy.

  Ted Dekker

  People, Skins, One Day

  Ted Dekker (2012). “The Paradise Trilogy”, p.649, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• . . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.

  Jose Saramago

  Done, World, Way

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

  Hermann Hesse

  Spring, Intellectual, World

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• Let the world change you and you can change the world

  Che Guevara

  Life, World

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• You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Cities, Mind, Together

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Extras”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.

  Orson Scott Card

  Book, Writing, Heart

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.202, Macmillan

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• You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Mean, Names

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• You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want". It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!

  Barack Obama

  Yes We Can, World, Want

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• We are not powerless. We have tremendous potential for good or ill. How we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it. We're told every day, You can't change the world. But the world is changing every day. Only question is who's doing it? You or somebody else?

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Use, World, Firsts

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• we are the ones we have been waiting for

  Alice Walker

  Change, Confidence, Life Changing

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press

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• Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate struggle for changing the world. Against all fetishism of the productive forces, against the continued enslavement of individuals by the objective conditions (which remain those of domination), art represents the ultimate goal of all revolutions: the freedom and happiness of the individual.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Memories, Struggle

  Herbert Marcuse (1978). “The aesthetic dimension: toward a critique of Marxist aesthetics”, Beacon Pr

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• We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Thinking, Skin Color, Skins

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• You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.

  James A. Baldwin

  Change, Writing, Reality

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• What words are in you that can change the world?

  Tracy Hickman

  World

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• Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Change, Too Late

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.119, Penguin

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• Every hundred feet the world changes

  Roberto Bolano

  Inspirational, Travel, Feet

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• Life is holy and it is for all of us. God's design, I cannot understand myself and I never will, but I do know that what we are experiencing now will pass and in the end we will all be brothers, not just blood brothers, as we are, but brothers in spirit. Neither you nor I can change the world or human nature and we can only aim at changing attitudes - and perhaps teach those who have so much to give a portion of their blessings to those who have less.

  F. Sionil José

  Brother, Attitude, Blessing

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• Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world.

  Joan Lowery Nixon

  Memories, People, Hook

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• Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.

  Markus Zusak

  Two, World, Week

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• If I decided I'm the girl to change the world, I can do it anytime.

  Demi Lovato

  Girl, World, I Can Do It

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