“Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.”
Vaclav Havel’s human rights legacy an inspiration http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/vaclav-havel-s-human-rights-legacy-inspiration-2011-12-21 Amnesty International (21 December 2011)]
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playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of … 1936–2011Related quotes
“Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.”
Variant: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
Everybody's Political What's What? (ebook, must be borrowed) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24979564M/Everybody's_political_what's_what (1944), Chapter XXXVII: Creed and Conduct, p. 330
1940s and later
Variant: Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Context: Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Creeds, articles, and institutes of religious faith ossify our brains and make change impossible. As such they are nuisances, and in practice have to be mostly ignored.
“I tried to think of something to say. Excuse me? Hello? Marry me? Anything would have done.”
Source: The Red Pyramid
“Human mind is capable of making up excuses to justify actions no matter how bad they were”
“The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception.”