Change Agency Quotes

If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world.

This world's not going to change unless we're willing to change ourselves.

I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.

There've always been people in the borderland between childhood and adulthood. That state is not a matter of chronological age. It's a matter of understanding that you can accept a future that has been defined by the previous generation, or you can reject it and make something new.

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.

Cornelius Castoriadis, the great French social philosopher of Greek origin, was asked once by an exasperated interviewer: "What do you want, Mr. Castoriadis - to change humanity?" He answered: "No, God forbid, I only want humanity to change itself, as it has done so many times in the past." I would be inclined to answer the same way.

I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

Drop the thought that you cannot affect the future. Tell yourself that the future is not coming TO you, it is coming THROUGH you. The change that is coming to you is that change that you place in your future with the thoughts, words, and actions of today

No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.

God wants to change us so much that it intrigues others.

It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.