Severn Cullis-Suzuki Quotes

Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place.

Back in those days we thought we could change the world.

The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.

I grew up believing that I could be the president of the United States. I was told I could be whatever I wanted.

When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

I want to just be what kids believe in.

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

If you embrace that the things that you can do are limitless, you can put your ding in the universe. You can change the world.

There's a beauty in being unrealistic.

Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.

I want to help people and change the world.

My entire goal in life is to try and change the world.

If people long to create a better world, then we must use our platform to nurture imagination - hopeful ideas, fresh alternatives, belief that the way things are isn't the way things need to be.

I want to be the most influential champion, in a positive light. I want to change the world.

Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.