Theodore Zeldin Quotes on Change
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Even Gandhi, with all his charisma, did not 'melt the hearts' of his oppressors, as he had hoped. After softening, hearts harden again. Asoka too was wrong to think that he was changing the course of history, and that his righteousness would last 'as long as the sun and the moon'.
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Change the way you think, and you are halfway to changing the world.
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The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.
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To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.