Shane Claiborne Quotes

I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.

Only pissed-off people change the world.

I'm trying to change the world.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

Defeat or the possibility of defeat is a great social motivating force for change.

Time flies when you're changing the world.

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.

I was put in this world to change it.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

Words may inspire but only action creates change.

Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.

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

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

The revolution doesn't always look perfect.