“In honor of her passing we are re-airing the More Perfect episode dedicated to one of her cases, because it offers a unique portrait of how one person can make change in the world.”— Radiolab, wnycstudios.org
“As my dear departed friend Lotus Weinstock used to say: ‘I used to wanna change the world. Now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity.’”— John Cameron Mitchell, Justin Bond, Justin Bond, imdb.com
“This is what happens when you work to change things, and first they think you're crazy, then they fight you, and then all of a sudden you change the world.”— Elizabeth Holmes, businessinsider.com
“You're an educated man, my lord, but I think it worth reminding you that in most cases a man trying to change the world fails for one simple and unavoidable reason... everyone else.”— Michael S. Chernuchin, Captain Flint, Toby Stephens, imdb.com
“I thought that maybe we could do this precisely because we're all unreasonable people and progress depends on our changing the world to fit us. Not the other way around. I want to believe that. I must believe that.”— Christopher Cantwell, Christopher C. Rogers, Joe MacMillan, Lee Pace, imdb.com
“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.”— J. K. Rowling, youtube.com
“As long as your words survive, then you lived and you mattered and you changed the world and I cannot remember your name.”— Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com
“It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.”— L.R. Knost, amazon.com
“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.”— J.K Rowling, youtube.com
“Go make your big beautiful dent, and as you do so come down on the side of boldness. If you err, may it be for too much audacity, and not too little. For you really are enough.You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self.”— Sue Monk Kidd, graduationwisdom.com
“But real people don't engage with the world via big ideas. We engage through activities that are scaled to real life. Big ideas—at least the kind we recognize as big ideas—are for big entities: corporations, countries, continents. If we're going to begin operating on a human scale at least some of t…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com