Raghav Bahl Quotes

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

The great work which is to be done is to change public opinion.

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

Raising awareness, changing the marketplace, effecting spiritual change - whatever it is that you decide is your thing, go for it.

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.

Philanthropy and social change work are at their best when they are driven by your values and connected to what you care about most.

I want to continue to produce shows that directly effect change.

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

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

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

Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it's going to change or save the world.

I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.

There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.

Journalists have to be optimists. When you interview somebody on Social Security reform, you have got to believe that Social Security can be reformed.

We remain committed to inspiring and compelling social change to the world's most pressing problems through the power of great stories and engaging our audiences to take meaningful action.

If we're still talking about the same thing 40 or 50 years later, then that means we're not doing anything about it.

I have no message or answers to social questions.

If I choose to keep my opinions and my activism to myself, then I'm not effecting any change in my time here on Earth.

I don't see myself as an activist. I understand that people, with me doing 'Satyameva Jayate,' for example, they will feel that I'm being an activist, but I'm not. Actually, I'm not, because I think an activist, as I see it, as a person who is very, very - takes up one issue and remains with that one issue for his entire life. I'm not doing that.

When we go and play live... we go and we work with like different organizations: the food banks, homeless shelters, children's hospitals or different homes that are reaching out to people. And just to actually go and say, 'Hey, don't just hear me play, come to my concert, that's it, hope you have a good night.' It's like, 'Hey, come be a part.'

I want society to feel they are part of a process of change.

We should be aware and constantly having conversations about the world because that's how you change it from the bigger standpoint rather than acutely trying to change things.

Films can't change the society; they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.