“You are not here to change the world. The world is here to change you.”
Šantidéva (685–763) 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk and scholar
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“You are not here to change the world. The world is here to change you.”
Šantidéva (685–763) 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk and scholar
Attributed
“We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing in this minute.”
Buenaventura Durruti (1896–1936) Spanish anarchist
Van Paassen interview (1936)
Context: We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a while. For you must not forget that we can also build. It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing in this minute.
“I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.”
Utah Phillips (1935–2008) American labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller and poet
Kupfer, David, "Utah Phillips" http://progressive.org/mag/interview/utahphillips, The Progressive. September 2003. Web. August 6, 2013.
Greta Thunberg book No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
You Are Stealing Our Future: Greta Thunberg, 15, Condemns the World’s Inaction on Climate Change https://www.democracynow.org/2018/12/13/you_are_stealing_our_future_greta, Democracy Now! (13 December 2018) <br class="br">Cited in No One is Too Small to Make a Difference, Penguin Books, 2019, pages 14-16 (ISBN 9780141991740). <br class="br">2018, "You are stealing our future" (December 2018)
“if something does go wrong, here is my advice… KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.”
Maira Kalman (1949) Israeli American artist and creator of children's books
Source: The Principles of Uncertainty
“Now, we changed it, here you are!”
Turgut Özal (1927–1993) Turkish politician
In the Motherland Party's congress. Seconds before assassination attempt by Kartal Demirağ (1988)
George Rogers Clark (1752–1818) American general
Clark, Speech to the Indian Chiefs at Cahokia (1778) http://www.kdla.ky.gov/resources/KYGRClark.htm