Ali Babacan Quotes

Only through perils and upheavals can Nations be brought to further developments. May the present upheavals lead to a better world.

Nelson Mandela understood that social transformation and economic transformation go hand in hand.

Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.

The Egyptians have grown in confidence, they've tasted freedom, and there's no way back.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

Reform is China's second revolution.

Always, since our birth, we've insisted on another way of doing politics. Now, we had the chance to do it without arms, but without stopping being Zapatistas; that's why we keep the masks on.

Change is debilitating when it is done to us. Change is exhilarating when it is done by us.

Women and girls transform societies.

Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.

When I was growing up, government was the agent of change: it was a developing country. What was important was to make a difference.

At its best, technology can empower people in extraordinary ways.

It may not necessarily be the way I would like to see it happen, but the reality is we could still bring millions of people out of the darkness into the light.

We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better." -Steve Jobs

Choice is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!

Oh God! Like the thunderbird of old I shall rise again out of the sea; I shall grab the instruments of the white man’s success - his education, his skills, and with these new tools I shall build my race into the proudest segment of your society.

And yet, I felt a surge of exhilaration just thinking about that night. Not just because I'd met the prince and fallen in love and started on my course toward happiness ever after, but because I'd made something happen. I'd done something everybody had told me I couldn't. I'd changed my life all by myself. Having a fairy godmother would have ruined everything.

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

With a little leadership, you'd get it in here very quickly, and it could be put to use on the inner cities and lots of other things, and it would be beautiful.

If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.

This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.

I tried to make some difference, and I think I managed to do that.

We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.