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Quotes About Transformation

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.
~ Holly Black
That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.
~ Jenny Downham
A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.
~ Clemmie Galati
He was one of those people who completely changes when they smile. Like the sun had come out.
~ Caroline Green, Dark Ride
Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it.
~ Augusto Boal
The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.
~ Huey Newton
One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.
~ Nelson Mandela
Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you have a disease of the old society, take a dose of Lenin as medication.
~ Pol Pot
If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
~ Adrienne Rich
In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.
~ John Major
I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.
~ Peter Maurin
If we have power to degrade an entire society, then we also have the power to uplift it.
~ KRS-One
The people are the only ones capable of transforming society.
~ Rigoberta Menchu
Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.
~ Salvador Allende
There can be no question about whether we should or should not transform our society in the direction of sustainability.
~ Alan AtKisson
Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.
~ Henri Nouwen
You cannot get a new economy without a new society.
~ Alvin Toffler
You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.
~ Lu Xun
When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.
~ Robyn Davidson
Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.
~ Shulamith Firestone
Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.
~ Jacques Ellul
Love makes your soul crawl out of it's hiding place
~ Zora Neale Hurston