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Quotes About Change

What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world.
~ John Denver
I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.
~ Banksy
It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The world is tired of seeing the perpetuation of violence and terrorism, but the effort to create a real peace needs to go hand in hand with the struggle to restore justice.
~ Mohammad Khatami
I believe we're entering a new era, where dynamic female leaders will have an opportunity to bring greater harmony and peace to the planet.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I've got.
~ Kurt Cobain
Effective action is always unjust.
~ Maya Angelou
We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
~ Harry S. Truman
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
As much as I think I've inspired people in the world, I'd like to be more involved bringing about world peace.
~ Madonna Ciccone
There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
~ Salman Rushdie
We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95!
~ Kinky Friedman
The defenders of the status quo often masquerade as the preservers of harmony.
~ Mark Sheppard
Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.
~ Isabelle Adjani
I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.
~ Sue Grafton
It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
You are the unchanging manifesting as the changefulness
~ Mooji
But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.
~ Hermann Hesse
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.
~ James A. Garfield
Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
~ Joan Baez
I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.
~ Mairead Corrigan