M. Scott Peck Quotes

God has decided, for his own good reasons, that people are not transformed outside of community.

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

If it's possible, 2018 was a year in which it felt like everything was changing, and also like nothing was. While we set our global expectations for the next one, teeming with significant political, social and economic volatility, we're also considering more local possibilities - changes within our own communities, homes and bodies.

Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

It took several years of trial and error, soul-searching and hard work to shape the ROI program into the ROI Community. In the first few years, we got to see the power of these gatherings and the resulting connections that spanned the globe. It inspired us to think about how we could transform an annual gathering into a year-round community.

Empowerment is not about doing the same thing the same way in the same environment. It's about building the man and the woman and doing so with a view to creating better citizens and, by extension, better patriots in this society of ours.

Allah does not change social conditions until people change their attitude.

No community ever did or ever can emerge unassisted by external helps from a state of utter barbarism into anything that can be called civilization

To build socialism means not only building gigantic factories and flour mills. This is essential but not enough for building socialism. People must grow in mind and heart.

Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community.

I appreciate the change associated with people's growth, but I don't like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.

I've seen how business can transform communities.

Certain events make people come out of their little boxes and become part of the whole.

It's about being a voice in the community. There's so many ways to be a voice, and that's what I'm figuring out.

When we make these decisions that we're going to commit ourselves to making a difference in the life of one person every single day, what happens is we actually build a whole generation of citizen leaders.

Football's incomparable to anything else - perhaps only music has that same power to transform society.

I think, with TG, in our own ways, we have been committed to the idea of evolution on some level and change on some level - that human behaviour may not be changeable, but one has to try and be optimistic and work towards content that might signify change.

'Pose' feels like a family. I love them all. It's just really beautiful to see everyone else evolve and trying to figure themselves out the same as I am.

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.

I like talking about it, I like talking about world change. I like talking about things that you want to do in your community.

Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.