Natan Sharansky Quotes

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

You have to believe 100 percent in what you're doing, that some picture or some thing we do is going to change the world in some tiny, minute way.

We didn’t make it perfect, but we did change the world.

When you empower people you sign up for a life of uncertainty and change.

Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

All big changes of the world come from words.

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.

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

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy. And they did it in a total devotion to non-violence.

I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet seeks freedom and democracy and we agree on those values.

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

Ideas are more powerful than people.

I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?

In the United States, nobody needs to remind people of their own role or their own power in creating the future they want to see. Perhaps it is something that is almost written into your cultural DNA: a desire to answer your Founding Fathers' call to create a 'more perfect union.'