Erich Fromm Quotes

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

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

Ideas are more powerful than people.

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

Ideas do not count for much unless they change the lives of men.

Ideas lead to actions.

I want to lead. I want to change. And I'm going to do it.

You can present people with ideas they may come to believe in, and as a result of them they will act, if they have the opportunities. Presenting people with opportunities is part of what politics is about.

It's not just about hope and ideas. It's about action.

Reading is good, action is better.

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.

The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

Ideas have consequences that can transform society.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

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

Power, before it comes from arms or wealth, emanates from ideas.

One man with courage makes a majority.