Anand Giridharadas Quotes

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

The evils which are complained of can not be eradicated at once; the work must be gradual.

Successful reform requires a long-term vision, driven by political leadership.

Policy is the way you can change the world.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.

Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

The point of the essay is to change things.

As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

All I want to do is change the world.

I'm trying to change the world.

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

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

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

Changing social policy is just dogged hard work.

Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.

Philosophers have interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it

You cannot effectuate change if you do not have power.

Reformation must begin with the GREAT, or it will never be effectual. Their example is the fountain whence the vulgar draw their habits, actions, and characters. To expect to reform the poor while the opulent are corrupt, is to throw odors into the stream while the springs are poisoned.

Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counter-power, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power.