Vaclav Havel Quotes

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.

Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

Human society cannot, be changed in a year.

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.

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

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

It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.

When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

Little changes can start to make a difference in the world.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, ... it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history.

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.

What is the soul, the informing spirit of our institutions, of our entire system of government but public opinion. Let us direct the force, the vast moral force of this engine, to the aid of others.

No feats of heroism are needed to achieve the greatest and most important changes in the existence of humanity; neither the armament of millions of soldiers, nor the construction of new roads and machines, nor the arrangement of exhibitions, nor the organization of workmen's unions, nor revolutions, nor barricades, nor explosions, nor the perfection of aerial navigation; but a change in public opinion..

Cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.