“As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.”

“A lot of times we look at the whole world and think, 'it's so daunting, how can we change the whole world?' and you don't need to do that, what you need to do is change your world a little bit, and see if you can, through example, inspire others to do the same thing.”

Michael Franti (1966) American rapper

“The world keeps on changing, but there is always something, somewhere, that remains the same.”

Ruskin Bond (1934) British Indian writer

“I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.”

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

“If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.”

Kurt Lewin (1890–1947) German-American psychologist

“You don’t need a PhD in climate science to understand what’s going on, that we have overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. That you cannot tie any one event to that is not the same as doubt about the whole thing.”

Bill Nye (1955) American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer

“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in this world — that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you are not understanding it in the right light. throw the burden on yourselves!”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“.. to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“What matters is not to know the world but to change it.”

Frantz Fanon book Black Skin, White Masks

“Nothing is going to change, unless someone does something soon”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books