Ifa Quotes

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

We stress humanity, and this is done at considerable cost. We can't have a lot of dramatics that other shows get away with - promiscuity, greed, jealousy. None of those have a place in 'Star Trek.'

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

The government may be made up of clever, sensible people. But if they do not believe in basic human values, the more clever or shrewd they are the greater the tragedy they will create.

To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

If we can be the best people we are as individuals, then that's the way to change the world.

If our values are worth anything, we should stand up for them and live by them, both within Britain and across the world.

To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.

I am trying to change the world.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

When you're someone who cares about making a difference in the world, and you have resources to do that, you have literally hundreds of choices you could make about how to do that.

I think it's important, as a human being, to help others.

I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world.

I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words.

I believe everybody can make a change in the world.

Public service has allowed me to put values my parents taught me into action.

We can't expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation.

My goal is to make the biggest difference possible in the world. I have only so many resources and so much time.

Artists aren't role models. If you want to do that, go into politics.

I think the history of the world suggests if one studies the Romans, and one studies the early Greeks, and one studies the history of the world, they all eventually falter if they don't come back to the basic aspect of integrity and honor and feelings of love one for another.

There was just this stage where I realised that people were listening to what I was saying and I could actually say something I believe in and, like... why wasn't I doing that? It's not because I think I have a responsibility as a pop star or whatever; it's because I think I have a responsibility as a human being.