Aristotle Quotes

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, it carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

Havana.- If 1959 was the Year of Liberation, 1960 was the Year of the Agrarian Reform. The nation lived days of intense transformations, not only political but, also, in every aspect of social and individual activity of its citizens.

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

My presence is to instigate and incite the people for any change they want, and for not having a change that they don't wish to do.

Especially in the sphere of social activism, I think we tend to unwittingly conceptualize progress or revolution as black and white and having a clear beginning and end.

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.

I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.

We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.

I'm going to gather all the French people who want change.

All I want to do is change the world.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

I'm trying to change the world.

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.

I am a radical.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

If the government is in jeopardy, it is not because we are unable to cope with revolutionary situations. Jeopardy means that either the leaders or the people do not realize they have all the tools required to make the revolution come true. The tools and the opportunity exist. Only the moral imagination is missing.

Only through perils and upheavals can Nations be brought to further developments. May the present upheavals lead to a better world.

I want to be known as a catalyst for change.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again it will solve the problem of the age.

Revolution is the duty of the worker and the peasant masses and not of just a few heroes, hence the necessity to organize these masses and draw them into the struggle.