Edward Snowden Quotes

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

I would say that Barack Obama has always been a real optimist about what can be accomplished. He believes that government can be used to create systemic, long-term, real change. And the first lady is more of a skeptic.

We are all in the Labour party because we want the Labour party to be a vehicle for social change. There is a thirst for debate in the party, and all those who have joined haven't joined without a purpose.

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

Your honor, I have stated in this court that I am opposed to the form of our present government; that I am opposed to the social system in which we live; that I believe in the change of both but by perfectly peaceable and orderly means....

The period of radical reform is finished.

Change America—Change the World

The great work which is to be done is to change public opinion.

The Great Society wanted to make America look like a country in which Little Rock could never have happened. It failed because it was a venture in denial rather than in realistic social transformation.

I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all.

I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

I want the system to change so I think you could call that a revolution.

Creating deep and meaningful change in this country takes time - years and sometimes decades.

Sometimes it requires national impetus to deliver real change.

The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against injustice and corruption in our society.

It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.