Quotes About Change

When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.

This is an amazing country, for all of its faults. My feeling is, dig in and let's try to change the world. Dissent is not only your right, it's your duty.

Giving yourself is the ultimate revolution.

The French have a passion for revolution but an abhorrence of change.

People tell me that I should become a politician but I say no I want to do something good for the nation.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If you want peace then you must struggle for social justice.

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.

Music can change the world.

Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile.

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.

They have the guns and therefore we are for peace and for reformation through the ballot. When we have the guns then it will be through the bullet.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind and inner happiness

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by agreement or by emotional appeal.

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

Let your heart become so saturated with love that you are able to ride the waves of change with equipoise, and find new meaning in everything that happens.

In a malleable world where everything from atoms to cells is changing to match our beliefs, we're limited only by the way we think of ourselves in that world.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

It's best to make your peace with change, before it makes pieces of you.