Paul Wellstone Quotes

You cannot effectuate change if you do not have power.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

All big changes of the world come from words.

I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

You do not need to be in a position of power. You need only be in a position to influence those in power.

Power transforms what it touches.

I have only to raise a finger and the whole face of Europe is changed.

Power is being able to affect the hegemony of existing systems.

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Power is the agency to effect change, pure and simple. The more power you have, the clearer and less frictional the trajectory from an idea in your mind to its birth in real life.

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

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.

We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

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.

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.

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.

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.