Laurence Housman Quotes

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

All I want to do is change the world.

I'm trying to change the world.

We have to take the world as we find it and do what we can to improve upon it.

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.

If one truly wishes to found a more just and rational social order, it is not enough to count on the caprices of technology.

If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard, and some people think it's boring.

Politics, in general, when you're trying to change the world for the better in any kind of way, no matter how small or how big, it's inches.

Nothing will be beyond our reach when we make the flames of creating positive deeds flare up across the country with the virtues of the young vanguard as the initial spark and bring into full play the mounting vigour of the millions of young people.

There's a world to save. Don't let anybody tell you you can't change the world. You can, and you have a moral responsibility to try.

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.

However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.

No emancipation without that of society.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.