Paul Hawken Quotes

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

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

Social change comes through people.

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.

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.

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

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.

In 2012, I see the potential for people to come together, huge moments of political and social engagement where elections are part of the strategy for change, but not the end goal and not the only thing that matters.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.

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.

Most important about what Ashoka is doing is that they make people believe that change is possible. That belief can go viral.

Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

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'm not any kind of social reformer.

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

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

It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.

Here is what is needed for Occupy Wall Street to become a force for change: a clear, and clearly expressed, objective. Or two.