Opinion is the great, indeed the only coordinating force in our system. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe. — Daniel Botkin Copy Share Image
We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis... — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself...and put… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were… — Lionel Tiger Copy Share Image
We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. "Surviving" is… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can't let other countries have… — Michael Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
If we cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place… — Chellis Glendinning Copy Share Image
I am in favor of [actions] that have authenticity, roots, originality, verve, balance, taste, communicativeness, challenge, relevance to their time-in short, things… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to… — Janwillem van de Wetering Copy Share Image
There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor. — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Talk and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades. — Paul Rogat Loeb Copy Share Image
I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth. — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
![“[Pleasure is what suggested] which behaviors, emotions, social patterns and patterns of taste served us well during our evolutionary history. They were experienced as pleasures and encoded into our formative genetic codes . . . deep in the past, from about 100,000 years ago and beyond.” quote by Lionel Tiger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41d/lionel-tiger-42821_behavior_pleasure-is-what-suggested-which-behavio_1246259.png)
![“[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.” quote by Gustave Flaubert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/110/gustave-flaubert-354_art_the-artist-is-like-a-pump-he-has-inside_2105838.jpg)
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