N. R. Narayana Murthy Quotes

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.

When we empower our communities, we are all better off.

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.

There is this constant effort to progress in America, to make things better for everyone.

My theory is this: Rather than having commentaries from the cheap seats, get involved and see what you can do. What can you do around your own community, within your own family, to try to improve race relations in our country? I think this is a responsibility that we all have as citizens.

For me, governing starts with people. It doesn't start with bureaucracy. It doesn't start with policy. It starts with people and what people need to thrive.

Our communities are strong because local leaders and active citizens listen and learn from the people they serve.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

We live in a society where we never prepare people to be a community.

In order for critical pedagogy, dialogue, and thought to have real effects, they must advocate the message that all citizens, old and young, are equally entitled, if not equally empowered, to shape the society in which they live.

If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own communities, their own businesses and their own governments, then we can really transform the prospects of life on this planet. We can find ourselves living in a world that is more like the world that I think most of us want to be living in.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

I would like to somehow make the community I live in a better place to live.

I'm very encouraged by millennials and their drive to make the world a better place.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

I was in college when tens of thousands of people marched on Washington for the first Earth Day. Raw sewage floated in rivers and clouds of smog hung over cities. But then something amazing happened. People spoke out. Thousands of students, workers, and ordinary citizens used their voices to say, 'This has to change.'

Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can.

There is a lot more hard work to do in the future for the well-being of our sisters and brothers, the people of Thailand.

What America is thirsting for now is a battalion of strong, down-to-earth 'doers' - managers, frontline activists, business and social entrepreneurs engaged in tackling America's manifold problems of unemployment, education, and competitive slouch.

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

The Model Sanctuary is not about self-indulgence - it's about reminding and allowing them to become self-sufficient human beings. I wanted to alert people to the fact that we're not the victims, but nor are we the villains. We want fair practice and positive, sustainable change, working with the fashion industry, not against it.