Terry Pratchett Quotes

Power is the agency to effect change, pure and simple. The more power you have, the clearer and less frictional the trajectory from an idea in your mind to its birth in real life.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

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

Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.

Power is the ability to get things done.

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.'

If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

Whatever can be done in this world will be done. The only question is whether it will be done by you or to you.

What rules the world is ideas.

You cannot effectuate change if you do not have power.

Power may be defined as the production of intended effects

There are two things you can do in politics: you can sit around waiting for things to happen, or you can start doing them.

Policy is the way you can change the world.

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

The "Power of One" is a slogan--not a goal.

The world is begging for you to lead.

... The future is very markedly in your hands, its value and its moral standing in the world and among ourselves. If you will take the power you have and use it, I have no fear of the outcome of the future.

We are smart and powerful enough to change our world as we need.

He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk.

Some make the world go round; others watch it turn.

No critic ever changed the world.