Theodor Herzl Quotes

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.

The environment shapes people's actions.

Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.

You cannot get a new economy without a new society.

Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

The forces of global integration are a great tide, inexorably wearing away the established order of things.

Governments never lead; they follow progress

Social change … almost inevitably leads to the rise of new political actors demanding a voice and a share of power.

'Aquarian Conspiracy' is the term I have coined for the network of people working for social transformation based on personal inner change. Such a notion is not at all alien to the American milieu.

Films can't change the society; they can simply open the space for the discussion which can lead to social change and can start new forms of social activism.

Sometimes it requires national impetus to deliver real change.

How can you make the people change? How can you reach them in their heart? I do not have the answers for this.

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.

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

Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

The "non-profit" institution neither supplies goods or services not controls. Its "product" is neither a pair of shoes nor an effective regulation. Its product is a changed human being. The non-profit institutions are human-change agents. Their "product" is a cured patient, a child that learns, a young man or woman grown into a self-respecting adult; a changed human life altogether.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing world leaves behind it not an heir, but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass.

People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].

You know, if people are not pacifists, it's not their fault. It's because society puts them in that spot. You've got to change it. You don't just change a man - you've got to change his environment as you do it.

But a law, however venerable be the sanction, cannot suddenly transform the temper of the times . . .