Terri Irwin Quotes

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.

In the late 1960s, the masses were supposed to be passive, not entering into the public arena and having their voices heard.

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

Social change comes through people.

Many women feel that they are so unimportant that their action can count little for good or ill, but it is the mass of individuals that makes up public opinion and public opinion is what runs a democracy!

I believe that social change has almost reached critical mass. So many people have undergone personal transformation that their effect on society is having a geometric - not arithmetic - impact. This coalescence of energies brings about meeting, networking, and a sophistication in communications that is unprecedented in history.

If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard, and some people think it's boring.

It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

When you've wised up enough, there is a very clear conclusion that you have to reach after a while, which is, at the end of the day, it is really impossible for one person to make a difference.

We have to have something that reaches the masses. That's what I've always known Me Too could do.

Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

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

But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly.

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.