We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.
I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.
One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.
I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don't go to school and many of them are in Af...
Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.
Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly.
The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.
Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of the great fonts of world culture.
I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining, if it's interesting, it justifies its being there.
What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.
The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.
My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity.
