Quotes About Changing The World

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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words. - Ursula Le Guin quote.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

writing capitalism

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution. - Martin Luther King Jr. quote.
A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

revolution African-Americans civil rights movement

Let they that would move the world first move themselves. - Socrates quote.
Let they that would move the world first move themselves.

action

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world... it is the thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead quote.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world... it is the thing that ever has.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. - Harriet Tubman quote.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

inspirational dreams

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

helping others service

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

conformity

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything." One man interacting creatively with others can move the world. - John W. Gardner quote.
The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything." One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.

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Let him that would move the world, first move himself. - Socrates quote.
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

action

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. - James Baldwin quote.
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

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The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. - Steve Jobs quote.
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

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Things don't have to change the world to be important. - Steve Jobs quote.
Things don't have to change the world to be important.
The thing that bound us together at Apple was the ability to make things that were going to change the world. That was very important. - Steve Jobs quote.
The thing that bound us together at Apple was the ability to make things that were going to change the world. That was very important.
Steve Jobs Smithsonian Institution Oral and Video Histories, April, 1995

Apple

[Technology] doesn't change the world. It really doesn't. Technologies can make it easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. But it's a disservice to constantly put things in a radical new light, that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important. - Steve Jobs quote.
[Technology] doesn't change the world. It really doesn't. Technologies can make it easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. But it's a disservice to constantly put things in a radical new light, that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.
Steve Jobs The Independent, October 29, 2005

technology

Be the change that you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi quote.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world. - Mahatma Gandhi quote.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. - E. B. White quote.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light—that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important. - Steve Jobs quote.
But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light—that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again. - Thomas Paine quote.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.