Michel De Certeau Quotes

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

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

Policy is the way you can change the world.

Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning, having nothing to do other than be what it is, no longer able to go beyond itself or give itself some kind of meaning through action.

You are going to change the world, because that is actually what the world is. You do not pass through this life, it passes through you. You experience it, you interpret it, you act, and then it is different. That happens constantly. You are changing the world. You always have been.

Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.

I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

If you're willing to change the world let love be your energy

You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it.

Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you.

There is no doing in the world without being first.

You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.

Passion is the love of turning being into action. It fuels the engine of creation. It changes concepts to experience.... Never deny passion, for that is to deny Who You Are, and Who You Truly Want To Be.

Action is the 'bridge' between the inner world and the outer world.

Man is effective in the world not only through what he does, but above all through what he is.

Pray in the night so that you can change the world in the day

Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.

The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.

If you don't make bold moves, the world doesn't move forward.

Truth itself is something you live, not something you think.

Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.

Now is our time to change the world

If the world does not please you, you can change it.