Moliere Quotes

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

All I want to do is change the world.

It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

Politics can't motivate people. The desire to get rich—that is the only way to mobilize the whole society.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, it carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

Your honor, I have stated in this court that I am opposed to the form of our present government; that I am opposed to the social system in which we live; that I believe in the change of both but by perfectly peaceable and orderly means....

The period of radical reform is finished.

If reforms do not come when people are at peace, of course, they have to come through violent upheavals, so as I looked out I thought: "Thank God, that this nation has had the courage to face the need of changes before we reached the point where bloodshed was the only way to achieve a change.

The American people are not inclined to change their society in order to free the Negro. They are ready to undertake some, and perhaps major reforms, but not to make a revolution.

It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

I titled my book "Revolution." And that is exactly what it is. France is experiencing a time of transformation - in education, on the labor market and in the pensions system. We're talking about a cultural revolution.

There is very little point in trying to urge the world to mend its ways as long as that world is still convinced that its ways are perfectly adequate.

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.

The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous.

I think we've seen at least the beginnings of rather significant social and economic change in the Muslim world, which I think will in due course lead to more political change.

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

'Dreamers' was because I really wanted to go back after I heard so much nonsense about '68. I wanted to go back to what for me was '68, when young people thought that they could change the world.

We are here to make another world.

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.

I'm trying to change the world.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.