Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.
Mikhail Bakunin

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.
Thomas Carper

The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
Gary Lucas

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.
Jacques Ellul

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame de Stael

The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.
Manmohan Singh

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.
Georg Simmel

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
Arthur Scargill

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
James Fenton

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Ben Okri

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
Paul Virilio

There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.
Helen Thomas

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.
Coleman Young

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
Karl Lehmann

Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.
Arthur Levitt

We don't need to fundamentally transform America. We need to restore America.
Sarah Palin

We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.
Donna Shalala

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
Donald Fagen

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
Deng Xiaoping