David Attenborough Quotes

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

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

In this situation [perestroika] problems and difficulties are unavoidable. For it involves far-reaching changes in everything—in the way of life, the attitude toward work and civic duty. We have chosen, definitively and irrevocably, the route leading to new forms of life: democratizing our society in all spheres.

Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.

We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is possible.

We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

If we make all of the people good, markets will be good. If markets are bad, which they are, that means people are bad, which they are. Want good markets? Change the people.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, that those which come from below are irregularly gained and uncertain.

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

America needs rebooting.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.

Societies either roll on blindly to disaster or they find the inner strength to stop themselves long enough to find ways for reform from within.

My goal for the Arab world is to change the status quo, which is horrible politically, religiously, economically, in every way.

No great revolution can happen in a state without revolutions or mutations of private property.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.