Georges Bataille Quotes

We have changed our environment more quickly than we have learned how to change ourselves.

The world that has made us can no longer contain us

Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.

The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.

I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.

A question I would like to present to the world is: Where is the love? And what are we doing? Who's making the decisions that are putting us in the predicaments that we are in, with all of these people losing their lives around the world in so many different ways? I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.

The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being.

Claim the possibility of a miraculous shift toward global transformation, allow the thought to move through you like a wave of energy, then emerge ready for the task of doing your part to make it happen.

Once we revolutionize the music industry, then we can revolutionize our communities and everything in the world, 'cause what happens is, the communities are listening to the music.

When the first human began to read and write, he or she set the world upon a new evolution. Similarly, if a few individuals have the strength and the power to walk away from the restrictions of the world and to stand fearlessly beyond it, eventually, in some distant millennium, all mankind will also come to that same liberation.

Heal the world, make it a better place.

I don't think that Women's Liberation will change much though -- not because there is anything wrong with their aims, but because it is already clear that the whole world is being shaken into a new pattern by the cataclysms we are living through: probably by the time we are through, if we do get through at all, the aims of Women's Liberation will look very small and quaint.

We can change the world one laugh at a time.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

Waiting on the World to Change.

The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.

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

If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body of the world, in the body of the earth, in the body of the person, there's change. You never go back.

... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.

If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.

Where the world is going and what technology is leading us to in terms of the evolution of humanity is an incredibly valuable thing to understand.

If you can’t change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?

I hope at least that the following will endure: my trust in the people, and my faith in men and women, and in the creation of a world in which it will be easier to love