Fawad Khan Quotes

Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

I never thought we had a chance of impacting anything. I am just starting to realize that we can change things - not just VICE, but all of us. In fact, we have to.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

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.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

I'm trying to change the world.

My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.

I have a very strong political outlook, and that is something I'd like to take more responsibility for in my life. I don't believe in utilising certain aspects of the power I have with celebrity to push that forward, but I would like to make some films that address some of those political issues.

We have a big platform we can use to make change in this country. It starts with going home to our own cities and making change there. It starts with encouraging people to vote and using our platform to talk to people with power in this country to create change.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

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.

If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Kids really have a lot more power than they think they have. They have the power to change the world. And they should know it.

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change.