Ed Koch Quotes

It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world?

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.

The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the world.

The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.

If the Russian word "perestroika" has easily entered the international lexicon, this is due to more than just interest in what is going on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring, i.e. progressive development, a fundamental change.

The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on the way to centauric vision-logic).

The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal.

People have been screaming about the end of times forever, it's always the end of times. But there's just so much evidence that the world is changing so radically right now. How much can the world take?

An authentic faith always implies a deep desire to change the world.

Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you.

If you think that one individual can't make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.

If the corporations have their way, the Earth will be killed, and that's in your lifetime. It's revolting to me that students are being trained to work in corporations. It's obscene to me that the corporations are running the world. We've got to get cross. Anger is an appropriate emotion.

The world is changing. We're not really proceeding on a stationary basis.

In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

I think that revolution means change. And if somebody feels like there's nothing wrong, everything's great even when it ain't, why would they ask for a revolution? Just stick the tubes into me and just pump away.

As I have said many times before, the speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. And it is nothing else!

How do we make the world work?

We need our radicals.

If you want to change the world right now, it’s not so much a secret how you do it. You put the secrets of a criminal government on the Internet.

The world is continually changing. I think in some ways it's changing in a very positive way.

It's going to take an act of Congress to deal with poverty and hunger, not only in this country, but throughout the world. We have the resources but we don't have the will.