Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.

It is not one government or another that can solve all of the problems. It's you.

America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.

The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism is gone, never to return.

We too often prefer the individual thrill to collective responsibility.

We live in an atmosphere of organization .... Men are learning the disadvantages of isolated action. Whether or not we approve of trusts and trades-unions and similar combinations, and whatever their motives, they rest on a foundation which is sound alike from the business and religious standpoint; namely, the principle of union and co-operation.

For traditional societies … the collective, the group, is more important than the individual, and empowering the individual is equated with dividing the society.

One man can make a difference and every man should try.

Most politicians will not stick their necks out unless they sense grass-roots support ... neither you nor I should expect someone else to take our responsibility.

Collective action is a means of power, a means by which individuals can more fully realize their individual values.

One guy cannot create a field, but one person can get others thinking.

Only individuals have ends and can act to attain them. There are no such things as ends of or actions by 'groups,' 'collectives,' or 'States,' which do not take place as actions by various specific individuals.

How do we change as a culture, and how do we each individually take responsibility for the one piece of the solution that we are in charge of, and that is our own behavior?

Not everything can be solved by government.

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

I don't really believe in the idea of the individual.

I really feel like people who want to change things need to go out and change it themselves and not look to politicians to do that.

Too often, we rely on other people - whether it be politicians or institutions - to effect change.

At Manchester, everyone plays for himself and does what he wants but it works out in the end.

Every person has the ability to influence change. I am grateful that my voice counts, and I am able to influence change. But more than that, there is a certain amount of activism that is engrained in me.

You have to do it by yourself. You can not do it alone.

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.

Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as a guiding principle both in social theory and as a basis for human behavior. Such a development when it occurs will alter the course of human history.