Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

All I want to do is change the world.

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

I'm trying to change the world.

Men start revolutionary changes for reasons connected with their private lives.

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

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

All of us have to work toward a definite future... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world.

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.

Lenin strove constantly to get the people to understand that the leaders could not do everything for them, that they them-selves, with their own hands, would have to build a new life and defend their own state; in this he proved himself to be a real people's leader, able to show the people the way forward and induce them to take the first step forward fully conscious of their aim, instead of following blindly behind the leaders.

I want to be known as a catalyst for change.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, it carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.

Forging meaning is about changing yourself. Building identity is about changing the world.

Between social reforms and revolution there exists for the social democracy an indissoluble tie. The struggle for reforms is its means; the social revolution, its aim.

My presence is to instigate and incite the people for any change they want, and for not having a change that they don't wish to do.

I want society to feel they are part of a process of change.

Especially in the sphere of social activism, I think we tend to unwittingly conceptualize progress or revolution as black and white and having a clear beginning and end.