In Order To Change The World Quotes

#1. In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

Jimi Hendrix

#2. In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.

Jimi Hendrix

#3. I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part in the breast of the individual person.

Stephen Covey

#4. 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 Baldwin

#5. We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

Sri Chinmoy

#6. In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.

Margaret MacMillan

#7. Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.

Gary Zukav

#8. There is no denying that we are still living in the capitalist world. I think that in order to survive and to change the world, you have to take care of yourself first. You have to survive yourself.

John Lennon

#9. In order to be written into History; one must first change it.

Darrius Garrett

#10. One reason for the primacy of the market in shaping the modern world is that it forces a reorganization of society in order to make the market work properly . When a market comes into existence, as Marx fully appreciated, it becomes a potent force driving social change.

Robert Gilpin

#11. I am an optimist and I believe that together we shall be able now to make the right historical choice so as not to miss the great chance at the turn of centuries and millenia and make the current extremely difficult transition to a peaceful world order.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#12. There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. We must be fond of the world, even in order to change it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#14. Some revolutions change the world in a day. Others take decades or centuries or more, and others still never come to fruition. Mine began with a moment and a choice.

Samantha Shannon

#15. By aspiring to join the mainstream rather than figuring out the ways we need to change it, we risk loosing our gay and lesbian souls in order to gain the world.

Urvashi Vaid

#16. You have been created in order that you might make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.

Andy Andrews

#17. To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more 'human' human beings. In order to change/ transform the world, they must change/ transform themselves.

Grace Lee Boggs

#18. We must all work together in order to save the environment and the world that we live in from further change.

David Foreman

#19. So many of us get caught up into the race game that we forget that in the end we are just people trying to do better for ourselves and our families. My father use to have a saying, that in order to be great you have to do great things that change the world of people around you.

D.E. Rogers

#20. For the political world, I have come to believe, is fundamentally beyond anyone's control, yet we all go on as though it were a kind of vehicle that only needs a change of drivers in order to steer it away from its frequent hair-raising visits to the edge of the cliff.

Arthur Miller

#21. There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its head in order to be stood on its feet.

Christopher Hitchens

#22. They weren't people that liked change. They were the kind of people that would have tied change to a chair with dental floss if they could in order to avoid it. They were the type of people who desired to live in their virtual bubbles and grew to resent anyone that challenged that world.

Anna M. Aquino

#23. Commit yourself to do whatever it is you can contribute in order to create a healthy and sustainable future - the world needs you desperately. Find that in yourself and make a commitment - that is what will change the world.

John Denver

#24. In order to change, people need to become aware of their sensations and the way that their bodies interact with the world around them. Physical self-awareness is the first step in releasing the tyranny of the past.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#25. Catholics Come Home inspires each of us to share God's love with others, in order to help change the world for the better, for eternity!

Roma Downey

#26. May we find ways to live more simply in order to have more time and energy to change the system of injustice that exists in the world.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#27. We must change the world in order to change ourselves

Christopher Caudwell

#28. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.

Woodrow Wilson

#29. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.

S. Truett Cathy

#30. As much as people would like to disrupt the world by going their own way entirely, you cannot change an existing system without also becoming a little part of it in order to change it from the inside. Everybody can change something, but nobody can change everything.

Rick Falkvinge