We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind

The only thing constant in this world is change

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world indeed, it's the only thing that ever does

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it

We are here to make another world

Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal