Eliphas Levi Quotes

To change the world you'll need a pen.

All of us have to work toward a definite future... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world.

It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change. It's pretty interesting.

I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.

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.

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.

If the government is in jeopardy, it is not because we are unable to cope with revolutionary situations. Jeopardy means that either the leaders or the people do not realize they have all the tools required to make the revolution come true. The tools and the opportunity exist. Only the moral imagination is missing.

Only the people can build world history.

Economic systems ... have never arranged themselves by themselves. It is men who do the ordering according to their attitudes, desires and understanding of things. Changes take place, not independent of man's will, but on account of man's will.

Children can change the world.

Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.

Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great slogan of the nineteen sixites hippies’ revolution—enlarge the area of consciousness, which quite often was done by psychedelic means.

Love is probably the most powerful force in the cosmos, capable of creating miracles.

Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not much longer. Science, as a dominant factor in determining the belief of educated men, has existed for about 300 years; as a source of economic technique, for about 150 years. In this brief period it has proved itself an incredibly powerful revolutionary force. When we consider how recently it has risen to power, we find ourselves forced to believe that we are at the very beginning of its work in transforming human life.

If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.

The passion to change the world for the better is a more powerful force than defense to keep it the same.

The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.

The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.

To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more 'human' human beings. In order to change/ transform the world, they must change/ transform themselves.

I don't regret the fervor, because I do believe, in the African American community but also for other communities, and I know from talking to people, for communities around the world, the election of an African American to the most powerful office on Earth meant things had changed, and not just in superficial ways. That in some irreversible way the world was different.

In the last few years we have learned to distinguish the means of Socialism from the ends.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.