Victor Hugo Quotes

My goal isn't to be one of the best; it's to change the game, to change the way things work.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

Being a game changer to me means changing the way other people see things.

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.

I love challenging the status quo.

Look - There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.

Nan Kempner wore one of the first Saint Laurent trouser suits to one of those fancy Madison Avenue restaurants and was denied access. She famously took off her pants and walked in wearing only the jacket. And it was that kind of revolution that was echoed in fashion and in life.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

Changes do occur often with such suddenness in ways not foreseen except by isolated thinkers far removed from the consensus of their day.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

I am imprisoned with a perception that will settle for nothing less than making a revolution in the consciousness of our time.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

Part of the concept behind the magazine was breaking barriers. And it wasn't just a sexual thing. It was racial and doing the things that were right. And in the process, that set 'Playboy' apart.

My mother turned 40 in 1973. So in 1970 - when 'The Female Eunuch' came out and Ms. magazine was founded - my mom was 37 with two children, and she was just that little bit too old, and the circumstances of her life were set up in a certain way that for her to fulfill her ambitions and dreams, she would have had to break with the family.

The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.

I was always excited about doing things with people that were ahead of their time, that were sort of out of sync with the rest of society.

I just want to change the game.

Some great minds become great by turning the rubble of an exploded paradigm into something consistent and meaningful. Others become great by laying the gunpowder, grain by grain. Every important revolution needs both kinds of minds to complete itself.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.