Ricardo Salinas Pliego Quotes

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

I'm trying to change the world.

It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.

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

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

Ideas are more powerful than people.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

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

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

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

Power transforms what it touches.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

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

You cannot effectuate change if you do not have power.

A revolution that does not produce a new space has not realized its full potential

No critic ever changed the world.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

Naturally a direct comparison of terrorist and novelist is complete nonsense. But there was once a time when the novelist also had some influence on how his contemporaries thought, the way they saw the world, the way they lived.

Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts.

I tend to think having an impact on the world is a lot more complicated than government.

She changes everything she touches. And everything she touches changes.

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.