George H. W. Bush Quotes

The great reformers of the world turn into the great misanthropists, if circumstances or organization do not permit them to act.

if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

I am a correctionist. If something is wrong in society, it must be fixed. At least one should try to fix it.

Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

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

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

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

If you're outraged at conditions, then you can't possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them and do nothing but that. But you can't change anything if you want to hold onto a good job, a good way of life and avoid sacrifice.

When we know that educating a girl can change the world, why wait?

The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.

The lyrics stand today (1980). They're still my feeling about politics. I want to see the plan. I want to know what you're going to do after you've knocked it all down. I mean, can't we use some of it? What's the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people.

We wanted to bring attention to the fact that we had so many deals taking place that we could have made change for the better for all people, and we felt that we would be a catalyst to bring this to attention to society.

But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.

We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do

What's more important is that we talk about movements; change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring justice for those who have been left out of the system, movements to include women, movements around sexual preference - all these movements brought about change.

If everyone is a changemaker, there's no way a problem can outrun a solution

No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change.

How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!

That's really all I want, to be able to change the world with my voice.

If you're not spending every waking moment of your day radically rethinking the nature of the world-if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order-then you're wasting your day.

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.

I actually feel pretty inspired and hopeful by the fact that protests are becoming the norm now. They're less part of fringe society and more a part of mainstream society. That's exciting. There is no fringe anymore. We should all be included.