Jim Butcher Quotes

It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

The Republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

If you have an ideal world, your actions should follow suit. And that will sort of hopefully spread.

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

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

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

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

We are here to make another world.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

All I want to do is change the world.

I'm trying to change the world.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ...

It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.

Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.

Policy is the way you can change the world.

Utopias are often just premature truths.

A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.

Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are “poor and blank”. This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for changes, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written; the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.