Spencer W. Kimball Quotes

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't.

Basic moral values must therefore first be internalized in the hearts and minds of its people before we can hope to enforce legislation reflecting these values

We cannot change public life until we have changed private life.

We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact "right" on people. It has to come from the inside. And that's where the church should be working.

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

Law is good, proper, and essential in its place, but law can save no man, nor can law remake man and society.

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

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.

Reform must come from within and not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

We believe that a society in turmoil cannot be saved through mere legislation.

Prohibition is the greatest effort for human advancement and betterment ever attempted in history

In our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.

… it is not sufficient to change laws, institutions and customs. It is essential that women acquire ‘a new skin’. This can occur only through a collective effort while women suffer and loathe the oppression of men; it does not follow that her ovaries condemn her to be on her knees for eternity.

You can’t fix the things that bother you the most by passing a law.

The real problem in Mississippi is almost a complete moral breakdown. In order to move Mississippi from the bottom to the top, all we have to do is just get people to do a little more what they know, to practice a little more of what they preach.

How can you make the people change? How can you reach them in their heart? I do not have the answers for this.

Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

I'm not interested to change about the government. I'm interested to change the conditions for the people. So, yes, I talk a lot. But I think this is the only way for Italy in this moment.

Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we change inside of us as individuals and that’s the direction I am in now which I call spiritual.

The change starts within each one of us. And ends only when all children are free to be children

I had hit a critical period in my life, where I changed very much as a person. I consider the person I used to be, dead, and I'm glad that he is. Insecure, frightened, confused, much like a lot of people I know today.

Gandhi saw how people have to re-think their own individuality before engaging in political activity. Otherwise they're just playing the game that the adversary has set out.

Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people

Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.