Michel Houellebecq Quotes

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Ideas shape the course of history.

Ideas have consequences that can transform society.

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

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

Ideas are more powerful than people.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

All I want to do is change the world.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

I'm trying to change the world.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

We must be proud of not being needles and threads in the hands of fate as it sews the motley cloth of history.... We know that this cloth is not sewn without us.... And that is not all. We can change the pattern of the carpet.