Angelina Jolie Quotes

I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.

I came to see that it wasn't enough just to care about people. You also had to build systems in which you could ensure that there are results and accountability.

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns.

Going into Somalia, I didn't anticipate how many people's lives would be affected by it. In hindsight, I certainly wish I had taken more time to think about that, but I can't change it.

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

What did you do to change the world today?

People in Silicon Valley are starting to realize politics is not a toy.

Sitting out of politics isn't really an option if you don't want things to slide.

I do not think wrestling is going to save the world.

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

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

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

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.

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that.

There isn't one celebrity I've worked with who doesn't have major doubts about what impact they are having. I am glad when they question the impact, because it shows they are based firmly in the reality that peacemaking isn't the same as changing a streetlight or distributing mosquito nets.

I could make a difference.

We live in a world that is full of problems, and we are the solutions to those problems.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

Responsibility has become the fundamental imperative in modern civilization, and it should be an unavoidable criterion to assess and evaluate human actions, including, in a special way, development activities.

The IFP is here to put into practice what we preach.