Paraphrased variant: We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
Harvard address (2008)
“We have to strengthen ourselves, our will to do battle, our awareness. We have to build a new and better world.”
President Hugo Chavez's Speech at the U.N. General Assembly, Wednesday, September 20, 2006
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Scotland in the World Forum (February 4, 2008), Church of Scotland (May 25, 2009)
Speech in the U.S. House of Representatives http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul129.html (September 16, 2003).
2000s, 2001-2005
Attributed to Tomas Bata at tomasbata.com, 2015
Attributed to Tomas Bata
Source: Speech in Gera (17 June 1934), quoted in The Times (26 September 1939), p. 9
2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)
Context: We no longer have a coherent conception of ourselves, and our universe, and our relation to one another and our world. We no longer know, as the Middle Ages did, where we come from, and where we are going, or why. That is, we don't know what information is relevant, and what information is irrelevant to our lives.
Source: Science and the Unseen World (1929), Ch. VIII, p.82